29 AUGUST 1987, page 13

`our Don Quixote'

Hugh Trevor-Roper explains the vast illusion which possessed Rudolf Hess I SAW Rudolf Hess only in the dock in Nuremberg. He was an unforgettable fi- gure: those sunken eyes......

One Hundred Years Ago

THAT a ship with 250 persons on board should be burned to the water's edge in mid-ocean, with a high sea running, without the loss of a single life, is one of the most......