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London, Saturday, February 9, 2002 Dear Sir
It has come to my attention that you intend to distribute within the jurisdiction of the English High Court your polemical book Lying About Hitler. The publisher is announced as the U.S. publisher Basic Books; U.K. publishers have properly rejected it for fear of libel action. This letter puts you on notice that we hold the work as published in the United States to be libellous, and that it will be the subject of action in defamation if published unaltered in this jurisdiction. I have no objection to its publication if the defamatory untruths are taken out, but I remind you that the book's commissioning publisher, the reputable U.K. firm of William Heinemann, Ltd., refused to publish it on the report of their own legal advisers (without any initiative from myself), and that Granta have evidently dropped it for the same reason: see The Guardian, attached. I strongly advise you to obtain Counsel's opinion, as I have, on the defamatory content of this book. Please acknowledge receipt of this letter. Yours faithfully,
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