SIR – I hope your correspondent Karl Dallas was among your readers who read the tribute to Jim Brewer (T&A, November 3).

The facts are that for some reason Nazi Germany turned on its Russian ally, and later sent its forces into the Russian winter ill-equipped.

The defeat of the Nazis on that front was from a combination of a determined people who were supplied by us through men like Jim Brewer who battled the cruel sea and German submarines to do so.

Socialism had nothing to do with it!

T Hill, The Plantations, Low Moor, Bradford