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A. J. P. Taylor on History

1906–1990 England

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Like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

War must come into the record of history, whatever else is left out. It has been the greatest single factor in the shaping of human history.

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

English History 1914–1945 (1965)

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