Niall Ferguson Quotes About History
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In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.
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The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.
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In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.
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The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.
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To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
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The Japanese Co-Prosperity Zone began as a racist utopia and ended as a cross between an abbatoir, a plantation and a brothel.
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Why did the Germans and Japanese keep fighting after 1943 when every rational hope of victory had disappeared?
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