History in Quotations

To answer the obvious question, the second author of this book is not the former British Prime Minister, but a retired historian from Hull: his colleague is widely known as a compiler of reference books. With the assistance of 37 contributors, they have produced an ambitious collection of 9,000 historical quotations divided into 90 thematic chapters and provided with source references and notes on meaning and context (sometimes at greater length than the quotation itself). These quotations were chosen to “shed light on the important events, ideas, issues and personalities of world history”. Unlike many dictionaries of quotations, this volume...