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

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

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

" Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible. "

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

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

" There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. "

" I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time. "

" I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him still; and I feel a special bond with the men, women and children whom he rescued from hunger, disease, and official abuse. Theirs is a story of endurance and fortitude that gives one faith in the human spirit. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" History is very much bound up in family experience. "

" One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time. "

" The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean. "

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

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

" Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order. "