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by Deborah E. Lipstadt (Author) "No, I am not a child of Holocaust survivors ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins World (Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060593768
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060593766
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 16.2 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Daily Telegraph, April 2, 2005

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A serious and important work on the power of using words to incite hatred and the need to stand up against those who hide behind their words to manipulate others, as told through the author's account of her courtroom battle with Holocaust denier David Irving. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her five-year legal battle with David Irving that culminated in a sensational trial in 2000. In her acclaimed 1993 book Denying the Holocaust, Deborah Lipstadt called David Irving, a prolific writer of books on World War II, "one of the most dangerous spokespersons for Holocaust denial", a conclusion she reached after closely examining his books, speeches, interviews, and other copious records. The following year, after Lipstadt's book was published in the UK, Irving filed a libel suit against Lipstadt and her UK publisher, Penguin. Lipstadt prepared her defence with the help of first-rate team of solicitors, historians, and experts. The dramatic trial, which unfolded over the course of 10 weeks, ultimately exposed the prejudice, extremism, and distortion of history that defined Irving's work. Lipstadt's victory was proclaimed on the front page of major newspapers around the world, with the Daily Telegraph proclaiming that the trial did "for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations." Part history, part real life courtroom drama, History On Trial is Lipstadt's riveting, blow-by-blow account of the trial that tested the standards of historical and judicial truths and resulted in a formal denunciation of a Holocaust denier, crippling the movement for years to come.
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18 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars BATTLE FOR TRUTH, 7 Mar 2005
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Very rarely does a book, and a non-fiction one at that, make you laugh and cry every other page, but Deborah Lipstadt's brilliant incisive account of her "day" in court with David Irving "History on Trial" does just that.
Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Jewish Studies at Emory University, takes us from Atlanta to Auschwitz and on to the Law Courts in London with a story that even though you know the end keeps you glued to the page.
Her gradual realisation that she faces real problems under Britain's strange libel laws, and the formation of a powerful defence team led by barrister Richard Rampton QC are covered in meticulous gripping detail. Her lead solicitor was Anthony Julius, Princess Diana's divorce lawyer, and her expert witnesses came from Cambridge, North Carolina and Germany.
They form a superb team that totally demolishes Irving's position on day by day, document by document basis.
This book should surely take a place in the study of antisemitism, the Holocaust and racism, and in my opinion should be compulsory reading in schools and universities in these worrying times.
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5 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating and highly readable, 18 Jun 2006
By Timothy Hawthorn (Bristol, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (P.S.) (Paperback)
A very well written book, most enjoyable which reads more like a novel than an account of a trial, which is to Lipstadt's credit. For a more scholarly discussion of the events I thoroughly recommend RJ Evans book 'Telling lies about Hitler'.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars When law and history collide, 12 Sep 2006
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This review is from: History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving (P.S.) (Paperback)
I confess I haven't quite finished reading this book, but I find it absolutely riveting, and not a book to rush. So far, the only factual error I have found is a reference to "High Heyburn" (instead of Holborn) when describing her visit to London to meet her legal team. If anyone was under the mistaken impression that this was an unequal fight between a maverick historian (Irving) and a wealthy "establishment", the book should dispel that notion. Ms Lipstadt faced the possibility of having to find 1.6 million dollars to fund her lawyers, or do the lawyerly thing and settle out of court by offering Irving a retraction and apology - this to a man who once said to a concentration camp survivor "how much money have you made out of that tattoo since 1945?" and who, though commended by the trial judge for his skills and attention to detail as a military historian, has consistently downplayed all the evidence about the existence of gas chambers and the death toll at Auschwitz, claiming that he is doing no more than exercising the judgment of a historian. Ms Lipstadt is emotional (pausing to speak some prayers at Auschwitz) where her counsel Richard Rampton is practical and hard headed ("this is not a sentimental journey. It's for forensics") and this excellent book should be read in conjunction with the full judgment of Mr Justice Gray from April 2000, available on the web at the Bailii website.

Does the law have a role in upholding historical truth, and should history be a free-for-all where every opinion, however ill-founded, should compete on equal terms for public support? All very topical, in a world where anger about Israel's savage military actions often translates into hostility towards all jews, even those who died long ago in gas chambers that have been demolished and whose existence is supposedly open to question.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A required read. An eminently just verdict. The wrong chronicler.
Historian Deborah Lipstadt, in her 1993 book DENYING THE HOLOCAUST: THE GROWING ASSAULT ON TRUTH AND MEMORY, labeled historian David Irving a Holocaust denier. Read more
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