88 Quotes by Norman Davies

I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action.

Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another.

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

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.

Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.

In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance.

Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance.

Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.

The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.