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

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

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

" Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. "

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

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

" Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking. "

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

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

" Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. "

" 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. "

" All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible. "