We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.

I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, social structures, and so on - and the decisions that people have to make. At the heart of all these great decisions to go to war, there are human beings who have to say, 'Yes, let's do it,' or 'No, we won't do it.'

A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.

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