36 SECOND CHANCE IN BERLIN JOSEF JOFFE The city about to star again as Germany’s capital will be neither a dream nor a nightmare.

SHORT STORY 40 THE BOY AND THE BOOK CAR HILLS I was in the grip of an obsession.

PORTRAIT 48 ADAM VON TROTT JOACHIM FEST Like other leading figures of the German resistance, Adam von Trott has never been accorded an appropriate place in history.

REVIEWS 62 THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE ANDREW BROWN Is EO Wilson the Francis Bacon of our time?

Bookish. Page 40

66 WAS HAZLITT AN IRISHMAN? AC GRAYLING Tom Paulin’s view' that Hazlitt was Irish is wishful thinking. 68 GLASNOST AT THE FCO ARCHIE BROWN What the official records of British-Soviet relations fail to mention. 70 MUSEUM AS MEMORY BANK CHARLES SAUMAREZ SMITH People visit museums in order to connect their past with the present.

Friend or foe?Page 48

SPECIAL REPORT 56 NATO OLD AND NEW PETER RUTLAND Nato is not a political club for trans-Atlantic democracies. It is a serious military organisation.

Baby Blair. Page 31

Not Jurassic Park. Page 70

72 THE SEWERS OF LIFE ANGELA LAMBERT Abrother-and-sister’s escape from the Cracow ghetto.

DIGEST

78 Pride and prejudice at the Dome.

REGULARS 4 /74-6 LETTERS AS Byatt ends a feud. 5 CURIOSITIES Prospect’s gossip column. 6 MODERN MANNERS JEREMY CLARKE Farting at Dawn. 43 THE PRISONER PETER WAYNE is outed in TheTimes. 44 LETTER FROM RWANDA KATHARINE QUARMBY Those who killed must die. 46 BUSINESS JOHN PLENDER on the Goldman Sachs flotation. 54 BABEL WINSTON FLETCHER E-mail is the message. 55 THE LIST Prospect’s guide to lectures. 60 STRICTLY PERSONAL FREDERIC RAPHAEL Oh, those evenings by the telephone! 73 CHOICES Prospect’s pick of the arts. 79 CROSSWORD 80 PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS MICHAEL MEACHER No longer a reluctant European.

F O R T H C O M I N G • German election:

Robert Leicht on the left • Matt Ridley on eugenics • Alison Wolf on Britain’s educational myths

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