A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
Citations
Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. Hamish Hamilton, 1961, p. 219.
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Alan John Percivale Taylor FBA was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age". In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years.
