[She hadn't been quite paying attention either -- but her problem was mostly being lost in thought which he couldn't know.]

Well. Most written records would glorify the violence without necessarily depicting it factually. And that's assuming battles were recorded in great detail -- individual aspects of combat and strategy wouldn't exactly be shared as your strategy could so easily fall into the hands of others.

[Romanticism of fighting and combat was pretty much common for the time, not to mention that the battles won would make the other side look weak and pathetic in comparison. She realized rattling all of that off might seem strange.]

History was an interest of mine for awhile.