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Alphabetical index (text) Though it would be no bad thing if Irving and the trial finally slipped out of the limelight, it is good that we have Evans’s book to remind us of the rules of historical evidence, and, in particular, how history should not be written.
— Prof Sir Ian Kershaw Culture, London, [images added by this website; the use of the Pinocchio icon should not be taken as implying that Sir Ian is a liar] Though it would be no bad thing if Irving and the trial finally slipped out of the limelight, it is good that we have Evans’s book to remind us of the rules of historical evidence, and, in particular, how history should not be written.
— Prof Sir Ian Kershaw Culture, London, [images added by this website; the use of the Pinocchio icon should not be taken as implying that Sir Ian is a liar] [images added by this website; the use of the Pinocchio icon should not be taken as implying that Sir Ian is a liar] David Irving comments:AS the magisterial Sunday Times kindly reminds us, Sir Ian Kershaw ‘s books Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis are published by Penguin.
Penguin Books Ltd is Kershaw’s principal source of literary income. This firm was also Lipstadt’s co-defendant in my libel action, and paid around a million pounds to procure the neutral opinion of Professor Richard Evans and the other neutral objective experts in the action. All, ahem, very cosy.
Related items on this website:Extracts from David Irving’s diaryIndex to items on Sir Ian Kershaw[the conformist historian] AS the magisterial Sunday Times kindly reminds us, Sir Ian Kershaw ‘s books Hitler: 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler: 1936-1945: Nemesis are published by Penguin. Penguin Books Ltd is Kershaw’s principal source of literary income.
This firm was also Lipstadt’s co-defendant in my libel action, and paid around a million pounds to procure the neutral opinion of Professor Richard Evans and the other neutral objective experts in the action. All, ahem, very cosy.
Related items on this website:Extracts from David Irving’s diaryIndex to items on Sir Ian Kershaw[the conformist historian] Related items on this website:Extracts from David Irving’s diaryIndex to items on Sir Ian Kershaw[the conformist historian] Related items on this website: Extracts from David Irving’s diaryIndex to items on Sir Ian Kershaw[the conformist historian] Index to items on Sir Ian Kershaw[the conformist historian] It took almost two years of research by Evans and his two
assistants, Thomas Skelton-Robinson and Nik Wachsmann, before the expert report was ready for use at the trial, and it has been a further two years before Evans’s book has finally been made available in Britain. But the time spent was worthwhile and the frustrations incurred in the delayed publication have not been in vain. Evans deserves our gratitude for undermining the pseudo-historical basis of Holocaust denial.
Though it would be no bad thing if Irving and the trial finally slipped out of the limelight, it is good that we have Evans’s book to remind us of the rules of historical evidence, and, in particular, how history should not be written. Even if the nature of historical truth remains a matter of continuing and legitimate debate, Telling Lies about Hitler leaves us in no doubt that there is such a thing as historical untruth.
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