21 NOVEMBER 1998, page 31

Letters The Myth Of Dianamania

Sir: Graham Turner (`Her candle has not survived the wind', 14 November) begins, `When Lady Susan Hussey . . . arrived at Balmoral . . . she found it hard to convince the royal......

Sir: I Wonder How Graham Turner Would Feel If Someone

wrote an article like the one he wrote about Princess Diana after his mother, sister or dear friend had died. It was horrible and unnecessary, and I wish you hadn't published......

Sir: Ronald Spark's Invective Against Impe- Rial Germany...

November) is a blend of the Hun-bashing rant of Horatio Bottomley and the self-righteous bluster of jingoistic music hall songs. Far from dreaming of dominating Europe in 1914,......

A Necessary War

Sir: Allan Massie's conclusion that Britain should not have taken part in the first World war (The war for a worse world', 7 N ovember) is very, persuasive. Nonetheless, I......

The Russians Were Coming

Sir: The evidence John Charmley asks for (Letters, 14 November) is in my book Drift to War. Charmley is correct in stating that Poland would almost certainly have refused to let......