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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own. "

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

" 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. "

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

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