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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 8th, 1939

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