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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 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.

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Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 8th, 1939

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