British - Historian | June 8, 1939 -
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.
Norman Davies
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For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own.
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It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
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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.
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Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.
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In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before.
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The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.
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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.
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In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.
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I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland.
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Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
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The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.
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