He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.

He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

It is more important to me that my students come out of my class believing 'This story is interesting and I might want to know more about it', than to fill them up with information. If I can remind them or convince them that history is interesting then I feel I have succeeded, because unlike chemistry or physics, history is a subject that anyone can teach themselves, if they are interested."[