Andy
Parson
wonders,
, if Mr Irving will change anything in the light of “Skunky” Evans’ criticisms.


Above:
Professor Richard “Skunky” Evans. A wealthy
witness

What motivated “Skunky” Evans?

I OWN some of your books dating back to the 1980s, but more recently there has been something which has been niggling away at me.

A while back I read (in a newspaper, I think it was) that
Professor Richard Evans from Cambridge (right) has claimed that your books are unreliable, that you have deliberately distorted facts, that sort of thing. Now I’m not saying I would automatically believe this, but I’m sure you would have to agree it does seem to be a very serious charge to make?

I have looked around your webpages, and I do now understand that Professor Evans was being paid to have a go at your work for a court case, so that could put a certain question mark over what he is saying. But then I found a copy of his witness-report online, and I read a little bit of it. It does seem to me that you can’t ignore everything he was saying just because he was being paid up?

Really, my questions are these: 1. Do you accept any of the specific criticisms that were made? For instance, if you issue a new edition of your Goebbels biography, will you now change the account of
Kristallnacht in light of this?

2. I say this with all respect, but if you did accept that you misrepresented the facts in some places, do you not think that Professor could have had a point when he said that this raises questions about ALL of your books? (From a reader’s point of view there does have to be an element of trust – wouldn’t you say?)

I trust you will understand that these are honest questions on my part and I am certainly not trying to knock you in any way.

Andy
Parson