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" A bad historian is even more dangerous than dead documentary wood. "

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" Poland is the natural bridge between East and West. "

" I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope. "

" I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts. "

" Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture. "

" It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman. "

" Europe's fragmentation puts the wider historical picture beyond reach. "

" In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots. "

" One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history. "

" Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. "

" Nowadays, it is no longer possible to maintain that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 23 August 1939 was a fiction invented by bourgeois-imperialist enemies. Everyone has seen the film clips of Herr Ribbentrop landing in Moscow, and of Stalin smiling broadly as Ribbentrop and Molotov signed up side by side. "

" Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit. "

" The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts. "

" Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off. "

" Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another. "

" It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. "

" The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel. "

" It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. "

" Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us. "

" The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be. "

" Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews. "

" The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. "

" In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance. "

" I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history. "

" Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice. "

" The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions. "

" The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully. "

" The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. "

" There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. "

" It's our vanity that makes us think that what forms part of our world today must be stable and secure. "

" History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. "