The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.