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• To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
• I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their…
• I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
• I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
• If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders…
• I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the…
• It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a…
• The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
• I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining…
• When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at…
• It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very…
• The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

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