to the Traditional Enemies of Free
Speech Alphabetical index (text)
Letters to David
Irving on this Website
George
Stern, literary enfant terrible of London, has discovered
Mr Irving’s 1981 book The War Between the Generals ()
War between the authors
JUST to say I had a piece of luck – I found a copy of
The
War Between the
Generals, Penguin edition, in a thrift shop.
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
-
Our dossier on this book and John
Lukàcs
Free downloadof all David Irving’s books Bookmark the download page to find the latest new free books
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.
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.
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
a
Hitler biography, stating that my book Hitler’s
Wars would render his superfluous, or so he told John Toland.
Hell hath no fury!
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).
Index
to the Traditional Enemies of Free
Speech Alphabetical index (text)