Inordinately fond of history as I am, I’ve decided to write about it. Not about my first love–from an historical perspective, I mean–Medieval European History, or my second love, Russian History. Not even about the bloodiest day in American History, the Civil War Battle of Antietam, which should have brought the Union cause close to victory, but, due to incomprehensible blundering, ended in a strategic draw, breathing two more years of life, at least, into Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.