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......