13 FEBRUARY 1982, page 25

Prague Memories

William Shawcross The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera (Faber £7.95) T f President Reagan or Mrs Thatcher were inclined to read, they would do much more for Poland......

Nazi Loyalists

Max Hastings O ne of the more pathetic delusions of the western Allies both before and since 1945 has been the conviction that somewhere among the ranks of their foes, there......