D D Guttenplan's book (the only history with insider access to the records) The Holocaust on Trial publication at $23.95 on March 29, 2001. The most objective of a sad bunch. D D Guttenplan distinguished himself by a book-length article before the trial in The Atlantic Monthly. (David Irving has no plans to write a history of the court actions. His trial diary).   Our thanks to all those who are contributing cash urgently to our Big One special fighting fund for the June 11 appeal hearing. In particular the the anonymous friend who mailed five $100 dollar bills from Seattle three days ago. [Offer help] D D Guttenplan has asked us not to post extracts from his book, but here is one link: How the case was won before it reached court

Readers have mailed us these excerpts: Page 163: The Lipstadt defence had somehow assembled a team consisting of five non-Jews. After the trial; Richard Evans . . . said this had been deliberate. Guttenplan adds a footnote effectively calling Evans a liar: "Evans made this observation at a public forum on the trial sponsored by the Wiener Library in London. The next morning I received a telephone call from Anthony Julius, who also spoke. . . Julius assured me that Evans was mistaken." Page 222: The defence does get one lucky break. Early on, Irving asks Evans if he was 'shown at any time any law report that had been produced by Penguin Books in this country, any libel reading [or] report on [Lipstadt's] book.' When Evans, quite truthfully, answers 'No,' Irving drops the matter. He never asks -- and Evans never volunteers -- any information about the book's American libel reading. If he had, and if Evans had seen the American Publisher's report, the resulting disclosure . . . could have seriously embarrassed the defence. Mr Irving comments: See Day 18, Feb 10, 2000 at page 76. The American libel report could only have affected the quantum of damages, which issue may still arise.