- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't envisage stopping writing.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Estonia
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.
- Different Personalities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020