I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.
From Norman Davies
The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.
The last years of fading communism provided an ideal environment for Poland's Catholic Church, which acted as an umbrella for dissenters of all sorts.
It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
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 communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit.
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.
Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
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.
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