David Irving

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia David John Cawdell Irving born 24 March 1938 was an English writer specializing in the military history of World War II He is the author of 30 books on the subject including The Destruction of Dresden 1963 Hitlers War 1977 Uprising 1981 Churchills War 1987 and Goebbels Mastermind of the Third Reich 1996 His work on Nazi Germany became controversial because of his sympathy for the Third Reich and antisemitism He has associated with far right and neoNazi causes famously during his student days seconding British Union of Fascists founder Oswald Mosley in a University College London debate on immigration He has been described as the most skillful preacher of Holocaust denial in the world today Irvings reputation as an historian was widely discredited after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books The court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier antisemite and racist who associates with rightwing extremists who promote neoNazism and that he had for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence Description above from the Wikipedia article David Irving licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia