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

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

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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.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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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.

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History is very much bound up in family experience.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 8th, 1939

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