21 MAY 1994, page 26

Sir: Ian Buruma Is Wrong To Suggest That The French

tend to ignore the second world war because they lost or collaborated. It is all the other way: Britain is the country where there is nothing to show that there ever was a war......

Normandy Revisited

Sir: On two recent occasions contributors to The Spectator have referred to the casu- alty figures for the D-Day landings: Robert Harris in the Diary for 23 April and Ian Buruma......

Myths And Maths

Sir: Need The Spectator really devote itself to perpetuating the myth that the 1960 election was 'stolen from [Nixon] when the Democratic Party machine in Illinois stuffed the......

Letters Stately Care

Sir: Alasdair Palmer is almost entirely cor- rect in his denunciation of care in the com- munity ('Carnage in the community', 7 May), and Virginia Bottomley is almost entirely......