22 MAY 1971, page 16

Joseph Lee On Nazi Germany

The German Dictatorship K. D. Bracher (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £8.00) A spectre haunts the historiography of Nazism—the spectre of secular, uprooted mass man, prised loose from......

Jack Bennett On The Gawain-poet

At Cambridge the critical weather-vane veers from Speirs to Spearing. Gone are the Green Man, the phallic castle. Gawain the culture hero. C. S. Lewis's onslaught on the Anthro-......