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1. "Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)" ~ Max Hastings
2. "The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure." ~ Max Hastings
3. "In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for." ~ Max Hastings
4. "Amoz Oz, who said something of the same kind, but from a different perspective: ‘People like you', he said to me, ‘are going to become very disappointed in Israel in the years ahead. You want it to behave like a European society. Instead, it is becoming a Middle Eastern society. I hope that it will not behave worse than other Middle Eastern societies. But you should not delude yourself that it is likely to behave much better." ~ Max Hastings
5. "Sir Edward Grey belongs to the class which, through heredity and tradition, expects to find a place on the magisterial bench to sit in judgement upon and above their fellow men, before they ever have any opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the tasks and trials of mankind." ~ Max Hastings
6. "We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)" ~ Max Hastings
7. "The quirky little melodrama that unfolded in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 played the same role in the history of the world as might a wasp sting on a chronically ailing man who is maddened into abandoning a sickbed to devote his waning days to destroying the nest" ~ Max Hastings
8. "A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly." ~ Max Hastings
9. "Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'" ~ Max Hastings
10. "There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media." ~ Max Hastings
11. "I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something." ~ Max Hastings
12. "I would have been a disastrous soldier." ~ Max Hastings
13. "Germany's highest commander succumbed to a disease common among senior soldiers of many nationalities and eras: he wished to demonstrate to his government and people that their vastly expensive armed forces could fulfil their fantasies." ~ Max Hastings
14. "Machiavelli observed that ‘wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'." ~ Max Hastings
15. "As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it." ~ Max Hastings
16. "On 4 January 1875 he filed his first Times despatch, with the dateline: ‘Under the Old Tree of Aryah, Tropical Africa'." ~ Max Hastings
17. "Liberated in Germany by the Americans, seven-year-old Valya Brekeleva and her family of slave labourers went home to Novgorod as non-persons. "Most of the people from our village who went to Latvia survived. But most of those who were sent to Germany had died. For those of us who remained, the suspicion was always there." Most of her family were killed by one side or the other in the course of the war. Her mother died in 1947, worn out by the struggle to keep her daughters alive. She was thirty-six. Her father completed his sentence for "political crimes" and came home from the Urals in 1951, an old man. Even after Valya had completed university and applied for work at a Kazan shipbuilders in the 1960s, when the manager saw that her papers showed her to be an ex-Nazi prisoner he said grimly: "Before we consider anything else, we have got to establish whether you have done damage to the state." ~ Max Hastings
18. "I'm a passionate monarchist." ~ Max Hastings
19. "I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal." ~ Max Hastings
20. "It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work." ~ Max Hastings
21. "People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system." ~ Max Hastings
22. "We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous." ~ Max Hastings
23. "When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing." ~ Max Hastings
24. "I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men." ~ Max Hastings

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