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"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."
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"This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief."
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"The only defensible war is a war of defense."
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
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"War is the most evil kind of human approach, unless it is for good cause."
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"The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use."
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"I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided."
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"There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war, there is only just and unjust war."
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war."
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"Why have we built warships to bring home peace?"
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"The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?"
History
"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."
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"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
History
"First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past."
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"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."
People
"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."
History
"My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America."
War
"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."
History
"I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene."
Love
"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."
Life
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