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Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities. Antony Beevor
Very Endearing Different Personalities Different Personalities
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience. Antony Beevor
You Experience Bit Both Individual Write Overall Well Context Realised Started Need
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past. Antony Beevor
History People Past Some Give Voice Because Been Denied Want In The Past Novelists
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later. Antony Beevor
Work Adding Later Distinguish Follow Pottery Material Conduct Original Paintings Code
A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems. Antony Beevor
Creative Writing Has-Been Poems Various Fact Dawn Blend Since Been Fiction Forms Epic Used Creative Writing Starting
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector. Antony Beevor
Politics Service History Law Discipline Economics Important International Relations Relations Further Sector Civil Purely Civil Service Students Almost Almost All Ideal Also Practical Because Go Private Provides Private Sector Skills International Basic Level Sociology Needed Careers
Without an understanding of history, we are politically, culturally and socially impoverished. If we sacrifice history to economic pressures or to budget cuts, we will lose a part of who we are. Antony Beevor
History Will Sacrifice Understanding Lose Pressures Economic Part Budget Budget Cuts Without Impoverished Politically Cuts Who Socially
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but 'histo-tainment' is superficial and lacks all context. Antony Beevor
Knowledge History Entertainment People Superficial More More And More More People Main Main Source Supposedly Context Source Historical Lacks Now
Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible. Antony Beevor
Truth Needs Marketing Television Remain Industry Historical Movie Incompatible Fundamentally
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting. Antony Beevor
Assumptions Way Bizarre Find Exciting Stuff Perhaps Been Often Interesting Perverse Reassured
The temptation in any approaching crisis or conflict is, because people haven't got a clue what lies ahead, they're always searching into the past for some sort of pattern ... to galvanise the nation or their supporters and put themselves on a pedestal to sound Churchillian or Rooseveltian. Antony Beevor
Conflict People Approaching Nation Past Pedestal Crisis Lies Some Temptation Put Supporters Sort Because Always Got Sound Any Pattern Clue Themselves Searching
I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline. Antony Beevor
Work Chapter Relevant Archives Outline Make Read Material Subject Skeleton Then Across File Each Round Start Copy
In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. Antony Beevor
Books Table Pile Spread Which Working Maps
I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake. Antony Beevor
Too Much Sheep Too Valley See Seeing Rise Could Write Trout Checking Overlooking Where Lake Whether Room Much Used
Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different. Antony Beevor
War Memories World Perspective Country Own Every Surprising Different Experiences Second World War Second World War
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous. Antony Beevor
War Memory World Dangerous Parallels Point Misleading Over Inescapable Reference Historical Irresistible Europe Second World War Second World War
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices. Antony Beevor
War Great Confused World Face Important Danger Moral Would Unspoken Major Most Make Forced Understand How Continuing Question Behaved Us Choices Fascination Second World War Second World War
The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual. Antony Beevor
History Took Individual Emphasized Because Off Influence Reason
In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived. Antony Beevor
War Opportunity Will Before Easily Out Write Wiped Instance Also Suppression Make Greater Iraq Iraq War Histories Very Accurate Information Much Hard Even
It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future. Antony Beevor
Future Time Backwards Past Crisis Security Must Lies No Idea Somehow Compulsion Through Never Idea Look Because Got Going Just Just Because Automatically In The Past Mean Muddle Muddled Notion Resemble
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. Antony Beevor
War Army Beginning Fighting Group Secretly Russia Ongoing Troops Vast Had Red Reaching Climax Been German Germans June Where Centre Preparing Savagery
The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands. Antony Beevor
Heroes Despite Battlefield Unarmed Cross Red Greatest Were Often Shot Whom
I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't. Antony Beevor
Love History Certainly
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. Arnold J. Toynbee
Believe Wills Civilization Civilizations Because Die Organism Product
History is a vision of God's creation on the move. Arnold J. Toynbee
God History Vision Creation Move
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. Arnold J. Toynbee
Evil Think Circumstances Would Advertising Any Any Circumstances Which
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