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George Stern, literary enfant terrible of London, has discovered Mr Irving's 1981 book The War Between the Generals (Sunday, July 17, 2005) 
War between the authors
Great, amusing, revealing! Surely the Purdey shotguns which Bedell Smith ordered on official money -- these would costs tens of thousands nowadays -- did he not get into trouble? As I recall he was later an aide to Dwight D Eisenhower when the latter was president. You one said that in some way which I can't recall the book was blotted out by some other event and not sold as much as it should. Anyway it deserved wide sale. All best wishes
David Irving comments: WALTHER Bedell Smith later became a director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and yes, John Lukàcs (below left) gave my book The War Between the Generals a stinking, lying review in The New York Times in March 1981 which killed it stone dead on Day 1.
It took The New York Times many months to
publish our reply. John Lukàcs, who was born
a Hungarian Jew but has disclaimed his religion so
far as I know, has hated me ever since Madison
Avenue turned down his project for
Lukàcs has published one lying, malicious article and book after another about me ever since, but U.K. publishers, knowing full well the purport of the word "malice" when it comes to Libel actions, have been wary of publishing his books ever since. He had to rewrite his last book (right) totally to take the U.K. laws on publishing malicious and defamatory lies into account (in the U.S.A. he can get away with them). | ||||||||||||
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to say I had a piece of luck - I found a copy of
The
publisher Congdon & Lattès went bust in
consequence of this one hostile review, because
Good Morning America pulled the
already-filmed segment it had done -- an interview
by Ted Koppel with me -- in direct
consequence, as they told publisher Tom
Congdon (right). He deserved better.
a
Hitler biography, stating that my book Hitler's
Wars would render his superfluous, or 
David Irving