“…This book is not meant to rehabilitate Demades. Its main object is to show how and why, through opposed views and people, the Greek and Roman sources have built an image of the complete foil and in what conditions the nineteenth and twentieth centuries historians have adopted and amplified this view…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Born in the Crucible of War Chapaev and His Socialist Realist Comrades -- Part II. WORLD WAR II AND THE HERO -- Chapter Two. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating heroes from chaos -- Born in the crucible of war : Chapaev and his socialist realist comrades -- Part II. World War II and the hero -- The peasant-soldier : Alexander Tvardovsky and a new Chapaev -- Eyewitnesses to heroism : Emmanuil Kazakevich and Vera Panova -- Retreat : Viktor Nekrasov and the truth of the trenches -- Part III. …”