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The majority of soldiers and ...

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

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The great European dream was ...

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

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To begin impatiently is the w...

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

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One has this image of the Sov...

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.

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I get slightly obsessive abou...

I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don't know what you're going to find. In fact, you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

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When we dwell on the enormity...

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.

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I expect the worst both from ...

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

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The vital thing for me is to ...

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.

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Politicians are often tempted...

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

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At the beginning of June 1944...

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by the savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans' Army Group Centre.

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Historical truth and the mark...

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

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I just write the sort of book...

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

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When I was younger I used to ...

When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a bottle of wine, have dinner, and then read or watch television.

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I was in Estonia when a profe...

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

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I can't envisage stopping wri...

I can't envisage stopping writing.

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It was only after five years ...

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

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Some novelists want to give p...

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

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Of course history is easily m...

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

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The punishment of shaving a w...

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

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I think it's outrageous if a ...

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

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