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"Churchill is tossed into Opposition by Ramsey MacDonald’s second Labour victory" — Apr 27, 2025 10:15PM
"Churchill is tossed into Opposition by Ramsey MacDonald’s second Labour victory" — Apr 27, 2025 10:15PM
‘They [the Romans] make a desolation and they call it peace.’
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“Europeans showed in 1900 much the same confidence in the continuing success of their culture as the Chinese elite had shown in theirs a century earlier. The past, they were sure, proved them right.”
― The Penguin History of the World
― The Penguin History of the World
“Article One of the Fundamental Laws of 1906 declared, ‘The Emperor of All Russia is an autocratic and unrestricted monarch. To obey his supreme authority, not only out of fear but out of conscience, God Himself commands.’18”
― Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
― Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
“At the present rate of attrition, Haig delighted in informing the prime minister, ‘the enemy’s man power will be running out next May or June at the latest’.”
― Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
― Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth
“Joseph Conrad once wrote that ‘it is the peculiarity of Russian natures that however sharply engaged in the drama of action, they are still turning their ear to the murmur of abstract ideas’.106”
― Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
― Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928
“They create desolation and call it peace There”
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
― SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
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