Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time. Norman Davies Read Quote
The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. Norman Davies Read Quote
Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible. Norman Davies Read Quote
Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War. Norman Davies Read Quote
The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as ‘cultural pilgrimage,’ which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge. Norman Davies Read Quote
In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance. Norman Davies Read Quote
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. Norman Davies Read Quote
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel. Norman Davies Read Quote
