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Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I’ve always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans – the original Americans.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.