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.
From Norman Davies
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.
In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance.
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.
So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.
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