History on Trial

History on Trial

2005 • 400 pages

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A chronicle of the author's five-year legal battle with writer David Irving, a prolific supporter of Holocaust denial, describes how the author and a team of experts defended against Irving's libel suit while exposing his distortions of history.


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It took me longer to finish this than I would have expected. Even knowing the outcome, reading about Irving's lies and pathological disdain for facts was draining.

April 8, 2014

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