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History on trial : my day in court with David Irving / Deborah E. Lipstadt.

Title
History on trial : my day in court with David Irving / Deborah E. Lipstadt.
Author
Lipstadt, Deborah E.
Publication
New York : Ecco, c2005.

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Additional Authors
Dershowitz, Alan M.
Description
xxi, 346 p. ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Irving, David John Cawdell, 1938- > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Lipstadt, Deborah E. > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Penguin (Firm) > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Geschichte 2000
  • 1939-1945
  • Trials (Libel) > London
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Historiography
Genre/Form
  • Trial and arbitral proceedings
  • Trials, litigation, etc.
  • Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
Note
  • With an afterword by Alan Dershowitz.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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."
ISBN
0060593768 (hardcover)
LCCN
^^2004057533
OCLC
56733583
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library