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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how. "

" 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. "

" The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action. "

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

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

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

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

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