Douglas Brunt

But there's a great Rudyard Kipling line that says, if history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

And that's one of the guiding lights for this.

History should be fun.

These history textbooks are so dense.

And they're not meaningful either.

It's like an itinerary of events.

Like that doesn't, how did it, it's much more interesting to know how did it change a person's life?

Like from one day to the next, right?

We had this 1905 Bloody Sunday in St.

Petersburg.

What's really happening on the streets?

How did that affect people's lives?

When you experience it through a narrative, it's indelible and it also is more meaningful.

You can relate to it and get a sense of the history more than just some itinerary.

So in terms of structuring the books,

There is a lot going on both in this book and the Diesel book.

There are political, industrial, military forces all at play in the midst of this life.

You sort of experience all of it through the microcosm of this family, you know, against the very broad canvas of like macro events of world war, et cetera.

And organizationally, it's tough to sort of bring it forward.

Generally, chronology is your friend.