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““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 European war)””

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“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…

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“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…

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“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate, overwhelmingly dominated…

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It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

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I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

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“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous…

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I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.

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You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

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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…

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“We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)”

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“The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or…

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“I can foreseen the fulfillment of my the visions.”

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