Evening Standard - London, April 10th, 2001
ON a demure Radio 4 quiz some years ago, I and other players were asked when we would like to have been born and to choose a historical character. Among the Charlemagnes and Cleopatras my choice was dull but absolutely true - the year to be 1905 or so and the circumstances such that I could be a young man of independent means able to wander about Europe observing its descent into the Gtterdmmerung that struck in 1939, the Hungary of Admiral Horthy, the Romania of the Iron Guard, the Germany of Berlin, Weimar and Nuremberg my bailiwicks. This was not a taste for luxury, but the indulgence of in...
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