“A teacher by profession, [a much-decorated Bomber Command pilot] thought nothing of the war for years afterwards. Then a younger generation of his colleagues began to ask with repetitive, inquisitive distaste: ‘How could you have done it? How could you… — 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
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