Sir, - Anthony Beevors's recently published, very readable and excellent book Stalingrad is apt to the present situation. It details how Hitler and his fascist, racist thugs sought to defeat the Russian people by a single decisive strike at Stalingrad and how his forces came up against a better defence than he had anticipated which ultimately led to his downfall.
Are we witnessing a repeat at Drumcree? Let us hope that the Garvaghy Road equates with Stalingrad and that the tide turns against fascism. - Yours, etc., Brendan Walsh,
Upper Baggot Street, Dublin 4.