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" In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists. "

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

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

" Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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