” It’s unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don’t know the difference between Britain and England. “
” I do belong to the club which doesn’t see a distinction between academic history and popular history. “
” I don’t see why a book shouldn’t be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time. “
” Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied. “
” History is very much bound up in family experience. “
” History must give the Poles the principal credit for bringing the Soviet bloc to its knees. “
” Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history. “
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