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Title: Clouded by hatred of Irving
Review: Professor Evans's broadside against David Irving just will not fly. Not that Irving is completely right on each and every point he has made over the years. But Evans is not really a historian to match Irving's indefatigable researching and presentation skills. He commits numerous errors, makes statements that were long ago discarded by more modern historians of the Holocaust. Yes, Irving lost his (in)famous--and perhaps unwise---defamation suit against Deborah Lipstadt; but the verdict was a Pyrrhic victory of sorts. True, Irving's books soon "disappeared" from various libraries and bookstores, but his essential worth as a historian of the World War II period remains significant, even if it is not acknowledged as frequently as before "the trial." Like Sir John Keegan and Professor Gordon Craig, if you are going to study that period seriously, you MUST study Irving. Not so Evan....
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