Words Can Make The Illness A Subject

History Always Happens To Us And Nothing Ever Stays The Same.

We Are Not Merely Historians But Also And Always Citizens.

After 1945 What Happened Was Rather The Opposite: With One Major Exception Boundaries Stayed Broadly Intact And People Were Moved Instead.

All Modern U.s. Presidents Are Perforce Politicians, Prisoners Of Their Past Pronouncements, Their Party, Their Constituency, And Their Colleagues.

The East European Small Countries Have A Sense Of Betrayal, Of Having Been Forgotten By Western Leaders.