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“A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.”

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The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

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“Hitler had learned nothing and had forgotten nothing.”

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The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

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When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

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I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have…

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The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

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I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

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Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

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