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It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral...

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before...

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because...

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army...

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous...

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly...

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

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