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AUTHOR DAVID IRVING with Jessica, the youngest of his five daughters
BORN ON March 24, 1938,
David Irving is
the son of a Royal
Navy commander. Imperfectly educated at
Imperial College of Science & Technology and at
University College London, he subsequently spent a
while in Germany working in a Thyssen steel mill
and perfecting his fluency in the German language.
Among his thirty books the best-known include
Hitler's
War; The Trail of the Fox: The
Life of Field-Marshal Rommel; Accident, the
Death of General Sikorski; The Rise and Fall
of the Luftwaffe, and Göring: a
Biography. He has translated several works by
other authors. He has lived for thirty years in
Grosvenor Square, London, and is the father of five
daughters. The youngest is Jessica,
five-and-a-half; the others, Josephine (who
died
tragically in 1999), Pilar, Paloma, and Beatrice
are somewhat older. See David
Irving: Information for Counsel on my Background
(1970) and Torpedo
Running (1985). He donated all his research
files to leading German archives. Jessica.
Click
for larger picture In 1963 Mr Irving published The Destruction of
Dresden. This became a best-seller in many countries. He
is widely-known for the depth
of his archival research. Among his works published only
in German is a documentation on the notorious 1944 Morgenthau
Plan. In 1996 he issued a revised edition of
Dresden, Apocalypse
1945 as well as his important
biography, Goebbels.
Mastermind of the Third Reich; 1999 will see
publication of the massive second volume of Churchill's
War. He is currently working on an edition of the
papers of Adolf
Eichmann which came into his possession, and studying
the feasibility of a biography of Heinrich
Himmler.
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