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

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

" Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War. "

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

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

" I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland. "

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

" I happen to belong to that group opinion which holds the break-up of the United Kingdom to be imminent. "

" The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation. "

" Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most. "

" In the years of the Red Terror that followed the Bolshevik Revolution, the voice of dissent was stifled by universal denunciations, house searches, and preventive arrests. "

" 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. "

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

" The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. "

" So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land. "

" The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact. "

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

" In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before. "

" The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge. "

" None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native. "

" 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 most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course. "

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

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

" Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated. "

" I first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I discovered that some of my close neighbours had been on the Anders trail. "

" One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else. "

" States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "