Conflict Quote by Antony Beevor

“I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.” quote by Antony Beevor — Download Open image

“I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.”

Antony Beevor

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

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