“Among Berthier’s many qualities was a diplomatic nature so finely attuned that he somehow managed to persuade his wife, the Duchess Maria of Bavaria, to share a chateau with his mistress Madame Visconti (and vice versa).” — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".” — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“As one Finn put it after the battle of Kuhmo, ‘There were more Russians than we had bullets.” — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“They looked like scarecrows,’ Slim said of his troops. ‘But they looked like soldiers, too.’ He also recalled the heart-rending sight of a four-year-old… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Grossly to oversimplify the contributions made by the three leading members of the Grand Alliance in the Second World War, if Britain had provided… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“It was on 7 March 1936 that Hitler comprehensivelyviolated the Versailles Treaty by sending troops intothe industrial region of the Rhineland, which under Article… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“The documentary and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming and indisputable; the Red Army, which had behaved so heroically on the battlefield, raped the women of… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Hitler had done quite enough in his career to prove how utterly untrustworthy he was long before the Nazi–Soviet Pact was signed in August… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Certainly the fighting around the huge water-tanks on the hillside was continuous for 112 days from the second half of September to 12 January… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“If you make war,’ he would say to General d’Hédouville in December 1799, ‘wage it with energy and severity; it is the only means… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“and said that these councils were only ever resorted to as ‘a cowardly proceeding’ intended to distribute blame.” — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
