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secret history

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noun

  1. Also called: shadow history.  a version of historical events which differs from the official or commonly accepted record and purports to be the true version

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The files, many of them only recently made public, reveal a secret history of how the nation got to where it is now.

From New York Times Jul. 30, 2023

That summer, he began to read the secret history of the Vietnam War.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2023

I uncovered extracts from the transcript of an interview given by Barclays cash trader Peter Johnson whilst researching a book I have written about the secret history of the interest rate rigging scandal.

From BBC May 22, 2023

Mars may have harbored life at some point, and more intense study of the planet might eventually reveal that secret history.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2022

The study was a secret history of the Vietnam War.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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