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History on trial : my day in court with David Irving

A chronicle of the author's five-year legal battle with writer David Irving, a prolific supporter of Holocaust denial, describes how the author and a team of experts defended against Irving's libel suit while exposing his distortions of history
Print Book, English, 2005
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Ecco, New York, 2005
Autobiographie 1998-2001
xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780060593766, 0060593768
56733583
A personal and scholarly odyssey
The defense strategy
Auschwitz : a forensic tour
Our objective changes
"All rise!"
Irving in the box : not a denier but a victim
The chain of documents
The Holocaust : random killings or systematic genocide?
Queues and gas chamber controversies
An American professor
Exonerating Hitler, excoriating the Allies
Fighting words
Revolting calculations
Lying about Hitler
The diary of Anne Frank : a novel?
Our German contingent
Cavorting with thugs or guilt by association?
One-person gas chambers and white people's polkas
The final scene
Judgment day : phone chains, psalms, and sleepless survivors
Enormous thanks
The "jester's costume."
"Introduction by Anthony Lewis ; afterword by Alan Dershowitz."--Dust jacket
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