The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
"Alan John Percivale "A. J. P." Taylor" was an England/English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay/Macaulay of our age".
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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.
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. . .
Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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