I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope.
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One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound.
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Law and Justice are the most vindictive gang in Europe.
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People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.'
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Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.
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It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that.
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Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
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Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture.
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Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.
