SIR – I have just read Mr Chapman’s letter accusing the BBC of denigrating Winston Churchill as revenge for Labour losing the recent General Election.

He accuses the BBC of using left-wing historians to undermine Churchill’s leadership and his failure to win the 1945 election.

I cannot vouch for the political views of professor John Charmley, but to suggest Max Hastings and Antony Beevor lean to the left is taking it too far.

Both are recognised as outstanding military historians, the former a journalist for the Evening Standard (hardly a left wing rag), the latter was a tank commander in the British Army.

It was telling in the documentary that Churchill likened the Labour party to the Gestapo; what an insult to those who gave their lives to protect this country in its darkest hours. Perhaps those who returned from the war did not want to return to the hardships of the 1930s and wanted a fairer society.

The BBC produced a documentary series, Our Greatest Generation, in which servicemen and women shared their experiences of the Second World War. This was the BBC at its best and perhaps goes some way to explaining why Mr Churchill was rejected by the electorate in 1945.

Gerrard Myers, Raven Street, Bingley