A Radical’s Diary: April 11, 2004
UP at eight after a horribly humid night; the air conditioning in the cottage has broken down, a week ago.
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A Radical’s Diary: September 11, 2004
TAXI from Denver airport to downtown, $65, as I can't rent a car. Phoned Professor S., he will collect me at 12:15 pm. tomorrow for the first lunchtime talk on…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: November 11, 2004
TODAY is the third day of the American (oops, "coalition") offensive against Falluja in Iraq. We know only what we are told by the media, who are embedded only with…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: January 12, 2004
TODAY is Hermann Göring's birthday -- it used to be obligatory to celebrate it all over Germany, and the people complied, though with rather less fervour than on April 20…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: April 13, 2004
UP at 8 a.m. after a miserable night, fierce banging headache again. Terrific tropical thunder-and- lightning storm during the night.
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: November 16, 2004
HOW unfortunate. Only last night we witnessed the Dickensian spectacle of a frock-coated Mr Sanctimonious Blair attending a Guildhall banquet with his smirking foreign secretary Mr Lugubrious Straw; Britain's much-loved…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: August 17, 2004
David Irving's diary entry from August 2004 in Key West, Florida — reflecting on publishing offers, legal battles, and the state of historical research.
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: February 21, 2004
A. has emailed me from Denmark: "Someone called me to tell me that on the morning television news show they talked about your visit and how they plan to stop…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: April 25, 2004
BACK to London in a few days' time. Work here is complete. The Labor Day Cincinnati event is well in hand, and I shall speak in fifteen or more towns…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: February 27, 2004
AT twelve noon exactly we walk into the Court. Registrar Jaques again hears the matter [Deborah Lipstadt vs. David Irving and the Trustee of his seized estate]. The hearing, set…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: July 31, 2004
ROTTEN night, weirdest dreams yet, very exhausting. Phone rang at 3:53 a.m. (from "unknown"). Awake from 2 then 3 a.m., wandered into the Mosquito Room at 5:30 and slept two…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: April 3, 2005
A SMATTERING of heavy dreams including one in which I spy a Josephine, aged around seven, walking towards me in a yellow top and white shorts. I often think of…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: May 5, 2005
THIS is on the edge of a vast Illinois prairie; beyond the hotel the road just heads off across a flat plain. Shades of North by Northwest: all that is…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: June 5, 2005
A BRITISH researcher Steven Kippax has informed me that the Public Record Office has documents confirming beyond doubt that Heinrich Himmler was liquidated.
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: February 10, 2005
BILL J. phones, has lost his cell phone, perhaps when he came to dinner; did it fall down the back of one of our sofas? I say it is not…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: October 12, 2005
OUR Greek publisher, who is two hours ahead of us, already reports in: "I agree. No interviews will be canceled. Journalists want you. Yesterday (noon) a journalist from the biggest…
Read more →A Radical’s Diary: May 13, 2005
MORE work in the evening on the Lina Heydrich papers, for my Heinrich Himmler biography; excellent stuff on Reinhard Heydrich and his character, more marginal about Himmler though there are…
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