Occupation: Historian Birth: March 25, 1906 Death: September 7, 1990
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one..
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight..
Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones..
Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently..
No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic..
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events..
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness..
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated….
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, eve….
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history..
Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else..
A master of improvised speech and improvised policies..
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting..
George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to f….
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long..
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour..
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other..
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help havin….
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, o….
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy..
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power..