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Hasibul Alam Posted 11 years ago
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can anyone plz help to find the meaning of this whole sentence

The narratives that vanquished peoples have created of their defeat have, according to Schivelbusch, fallen into several identifiable types. In one of these, the vanquished manage to construe the victor’s triumph as the result of some spurious advantage, the victors being truly inferior where it counts.
  

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There are two sentences. Sentence one: Schivelbusch studied the war stories that the defeated people create. He classifies these stories into different types.

  • There are two sentences.
  • Sentence one: Schivelbusch studied the war stories that the defeated people create.
  • He classifies these stories into different types.
  • Sentence two: In one type of story, the defeated people describe their conquerors as winning because of luck.
  • The conquerors are actually inferior to them.
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There are two sentences.

Sentence one:
Schivelbusch studied the war stories that the defeated people create.
He classifies these stories into different types.

Sentence two:
In one type of story, the defeated people describe their conquerors as winning because of luck.
The conquerors are actually inferior to them.

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