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- Birth nameAlan Louis Charles Bullock
- Alan Bullock was born on December 13, 1914 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, UK. He is known for Tyranny: The Years of Adolf Hitler (1959), Thinking Aloud (1984) and Portraits of Power (1957). He was married to Hilda Handy. He died on February 2, 2004 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK.
- SpouseHilda Handy(June 1940 - February 2, 2004) (his death, 5 children)
- First middle name "Louis" was after Robert Louis Stevenson; second middle name "Charles" was after Charles Dickens.
- Biographer of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Ernest Bevin. Created Baron Bullock of Leafield in the County of Oxfordshire on 30 January 1976.
- Was one of the Labour Party peers to leave and join the forming SDP in 1981.
- Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.
- Evil is a form of incompetence.
- Spending a weekend with Alan Bullock would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
- Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
- No one understood better than Joseph Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
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