 David Irving[Photo by David Gamble for The Independent on
Sunday]
Letter from
David Irving to a
publisher of John Lukacs book October
9, 2000 [ Back to Lukacs Index
] | 81 DUKE STREET MAYFAIR W.1 October 9, 2000 Dear Sirs, I
understand from hearsay that your firm is to publish John
Lukács's latest work. If it is the work known in
the United States as The Hitler of
History then I would ask you to read the
attached letter which I sent
at the time the book was published in the United States to
his U.S. publisher, drawing attention to serious libels
contained in the work.
Like Gitta Sereny, Mr Lukács has a record
of seeking to defame me (I have a dossier
on this.) You will be aware by now that I do not hesitate to
proceed against libels in the British courts. It may be that
your solicitors have already read the work and have required
the author to clean it up; alternatively, it may be that he
made no attempt to draw your attention to the problematic
nature of his text, in which case you should forward this
letter to your solicitors immediately. It is not of course
my intention to prevent the publication of this work in a
suitable form, merely to avoid problems between your firm,
which has published several of my works in the past, and
myself. Yours sincerely, 
- David Irving
- FOCAL POINT PUBLICATIONS
- e-mail: [email protected]
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- Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.
- Ion Trewin, Managing Director
- Orion Publishing Group
- 5 Upper St Martin's Lane
- London WC2H 9EA
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