The truth of history often likes to conceal itself in small coincidences.
Aldo SchiavoneLet me explain how such a thing might occasionally happen,' Goebbels said. 'All during the twelve years of the Weimar Republic our people were virtually in jail. Now our party is in charge and they are free again. When a man has been in jail for twelve years and he is suddenly freed, in his joy he may do something irrational, perhaps even brutal. Is that not a possibility in your country also?'
Ebbutt, his voice even, noted a fundamental difference in how England might approach such a scenario. 'If it should happen,' he said, 'we would throw the man right back in jail.
Tags: history wwii nazi-germany
The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no fewer than 600 camels. It was dazzling, but it was also clear from this attempt to reach out to the Afghans that the British were not interested in cultivating Shah Shuja's friendship for its own sake, but were concerned only to outflank their imperial rivals: the Afghans were perceived as mere pawns on the chessboard of western diplomacy, to be engaged or sacrificed at will. It was a precedent that was to be followed many other times, by several different powers, over the years and decades to come; and each time the Afghans would show themselves capable of defending their inhospitable terrain far more effectively than any of their would-be manipulators could possibly have suspected.
William DalrympleTags: history foreshadowing imperialism afghanistan
Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.
Louis L'AmourMuch of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was happening elsewhere, and what had happened in the past. To view a period in isolation is to miss whatever message it has to offer.
Louis L'AmourTags: history isolation study message comparison
All this is always for nothing," he says. "Don't you understand that yet? Every death is a pointless death; every battle should have been avoided. But if Edward can defeat the queen, and imprison her along with her husband, then it will indeed be over.
Philippa GregoryThe king is a saint and cannot rule, and his son is a devil and should not.
Philippa GregoryTags: history war royalty cousins-war
When he told me that he would fight forever, I knew that he would have to be defeated.
Philippa GregoryTags: history war cousins-war unending
Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.
Philippa GregoryEvery nation is part of the history we inherit, blacks and whites, slaves and gods; we have no other option, embracing each other.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: history black gods slaves nations white embracing
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