James

“EVIL COMES OFTEN to a man with money; tyranny comes surely to him without it.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum: A Novel

“Worse, it had revealed something about Britain that few wanted to acknowledge. The country told itself that, while other nations might be willing to goose-step or bend to the will of a dictator, such things were not in the British nature. But Roberts had found ordinary British men and women who didn’t just privately wish Hitler well, but were prepared to risk their lives to help him. Behind them were surely many more who would cheerfully have gone along with fascism if it had seemed the safest course.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter

“Women in the fourteenth century had an approximately one in fifty chance of dying in childbirth or soon afterwards”
― Kathryn Warner, Living in Medieval England: The Turbulent Year of 1326

“In 1942, Liddell confided a worry to his diary: ‘There is no doubt that the Russians are far better in the matter of espionage than any other country in the world.’ He continued, ‘I am perfectly certain that they are well bedded down here and that we should be making more active investigations. They will be a great source of trouble to us when the war is over.”
― Robert Hutton, Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5's Secret Nazi Hunter