Economic planning from above can be carried out in peacetime only by the aid of fines, prisons, and ultimately concentration camps. - A. J. P. Taylor

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Economic planning from above can be carried out in peacetime only by the aid of fines, prisons, and ultimately concentration camps.

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About A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.

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Native Name: Alan John Percivale Taylor

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The Normans were savage destroyers who brought ruin to a flourishing culture and stamped their brutality on the land and on its architecture. The old Radicals were not all that wrong when they attributed the evils of our society to the Norman conquest and looked back to Anglo-Saxon times as a golden age.

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