14 NOVEMBER 1998, page 36

Ready Or Not

Sir: Your contributor Allan Massie should stick to his novels. His proposition (`The war for a worse world', 7 November) that Britain blundered into an unnecessary war in 1914......

Letters Seeing Isn't Believing

Sir: Obviously the '300' list is a jolly jour- nalistic diversion (What about Sir Humphrey?', 7 November). However, the great problem for some of us is that impor- tant but......

Sir: Before Richard Lamb Steps In To Con- Tradict Allan

Massie's excellent piece on 1914, might I write in to support it? My forthcoming book The Turning Point, to be published in the spring by Hodder, provides chapter and verse for......