Real History, and some items Documents on the Did I say England? The land of the Anglos? There is now a large, ahem, non-Anglo, population in Manchester, and I suspect that the usual traditional enemies of free speech have intervened. June 25, 2005 (Saturday) Key West (Florida) B. phones from London for a long chat. Jessica has gone off with friends to a birthday in Battersea.
B. has trepidatiously included two bottles of shampoo in the birthday gifts, as the friends’ mother refuses to wash their hair, having some freakily religious objections to it. President Franklin D Roosevelt ‘s phrase, “This Means Waah,” comes to mind. I sit at [street restaurant] from 5 to 7 pm, as the sun goes down, sipping coffee and doing the final typesetting adjustments on Rommel (1977). [ New CLASSIC REISSUE editions of all Mr Irving’s early works are being prepared ].
I get sucked into reading it, just like a newcomer. What a great book, thanks mainly to the editing work of master-craftsman Tom Congdon (left). I can never write like that again. What magnificent chapter-endings. No wonder it got such rave reviews . I wonder if I can craft the Heinrich Himmler biography even half as well. It is coming together, and I know just what areas I still have to cover. It won’t be easy, given that I have been banned from Germany since 1993!
The establishment’s on-going war against Real History! Yet we are the ones who are bit by bit establishing the truth, for example about the Reichsführer-SS’s life — and death .
I find myself getting very angry again with that ugly Lesbian pipsqueak and her gang for having poured their mindless slime over me and the unpublished Joseph Goebbels biography in 1996, without ever having read a single book I wrote; and with that strange and hapless Mr Justice Gray for having sided with them in my libel action against her . He adopted every single one of his former colleague Richard Rampton ‘s points, almost blindly, no matter how absurd, (The peephole argument !
The Dresden latecomer witnesses!), while at the same time saying what a great writer, researcher, and WW2 historian I am . As I told the BBC, if September 11, 2001 had come before the trial and not after, Rampton and Gray would have found some way of working the Twin Towers and Mohammed Atta into their defense and Judgment too. That is one reason why I called his Judgment “perverse” and I have stuck to that adjective ever since.
I cycle up to Stock Island for supper, a lovely quiet evening ride with no wind whatever, as the sun sets behind me across the Gulf. I get