Norman Davies

There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything.

— Norman Davies

None of Europe's modern nations are genuinely native.

— Norman Davies

History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees.

— Norman Davies

Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status.…

— Norman Davies

I do belong to the club which doesn't see a distinction between academic history and popular history.

— Norman Davies

Poland is the natural bridge between East and West.

— Norman Davies

The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and…

— Norman Davies

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of…

— Norman Davies

Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems…

— Norman Davies

Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews.

— Norman Davies

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

— Norman Davies

In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins…

— Norman Davies

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used…

— Norman Davies

The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and…

— Norman Davies

The official ideology [of Poland] is Marxism-Leninism, which no one openly admits to believing. For Marx expressed the German view, and Lenin…

— Norman Davies

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.

— Norman Davies

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

— Norman Davies

I first heard of General Anders and his army more than 50 years ago. I admired him then, and I admire him…

— Norman Davies

I first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I…

— Norman Davies

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death.…

— Norman Davies

Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.

— Norman Davies

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of…

— Norman Davies