Nothing Happened: A History SS_Gift_Guide Award-winning journalist Hannah Barnes has

Award-winning journalist Hannah Barnes has had unprecedented access to thousands of pages of documents

that embodied a war that almost happened

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and Pierre Touissant

and honed his survival skills on the western frontier

Nothing Happened: A History SS_Gift_Guide Award-winning journalist Hannah Barnes hasThe past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a catch all