History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier
In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick...
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In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called putative WWII historian David Irving "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial." A prolific author of books on Nazi Germany who has claimed that more people died in Ted Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Irving responded by filing a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom -- where the burden of proof lies on the defendant, not on the plaintiff. At stake were not only the reputations of two historians but the record of history itself.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060593773 (0060593776)
Publish date: April 4th 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
History,
Journalism,
Politics,
American History,
World War II,
Law,
Holocaust
As I write this, some dude with a too long beard is in trouble because he is a homophobic idiot who not only has too much money and a television but gives interviews and doesn’t realize about words. Now, this man, whose name I could quite easily look up but whose name I don’t wish to...
I need to point out that the only reason why I gave this book three stars is that sometimes the style feels a little a like a list. I'm not sure how Lipstadt could have made an English trial more lively, but I'm trying to be fair.Lipstadt is da bomb! She is my new hero! She is awesome! And her l...
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