17 MAY 2008, Page 24

No sin of omission

Sir: Jonathan Mirsky (Books, 10 May) quotes Tony Judt stating that Arthur Koestler was ‘silent’ on ‘the famines, the expropriations, the wholesale deportations of peoples authorised by Stalin’. Koestler devoted most of the third part of his The Yogi and the Commissar to these subjects.

David Ashton

Norfolk