The winning side of a war writes the narrative; politicians, cultural leaders, educators, and the media create the "facts" that school-children know. The losing side can struggle for decades to crack open a window onto inconvenient truths and a more complete picture. "Unimportant" facts do not fare much better in textbooks. Marginalized nations and groups are overlooked or selectively noted according to their relevance to the winner-loser framework. Things get lost. Average people get lost, because history revolves not only around victors but also around kings and queens, presidents and generals. Average people are faceless subjects or cannon fodder.