We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Liberated in Germany by the Americans, seven-year-old Valya Brekeleva and her family of slave labourers went home to Novgorod as non-persons. “Most of the… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate, overwhelmingly dominated… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)” — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
