52 Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

If a leader merely carried out what historical forces made inevitable, it is not the person that mattered, it is the moment in time

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War.

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.

I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!