28 OCTOBER 2000, page 60

The Humanising Of Hitler

Norman Lebrecht I t is not often that you feel the tectonic plates of history moving beneath your feet, but a seismic shift is taking place in our grasp of the greatest moral......

Overtaken By Time

John de Falbe JORWERD: THE DEATH OF THE VILLAGE IN LATE 20TH-CENTURY EUROPE by Geert Mak, translated from the Dutch by Ann Kelland Harvill, £12, pp. 269 O nce in a while one......

Le,-, C ' 4 : # Spectator Book Of The Week Cochrane By...

This is an account of the life and adventures of the daring seaman Thomas Cochrane, who rose from midshipman to admiral and was called 'the sea wolf' by Napoleon. His exploits......