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Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust Holocaust And The David Irving Trial КНИГИ ;ВОЕННАЯ ИСТОРИЯ Richard J. EvansLying About Hitler: History, Holocaust Holocaust And The David Irving Trial Publisher: Basic Books 2001 Pages 336ISBN: 0465021522; 9780465021529PDF | 16.2 MBIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian’s enterprise. For instance, don’t all historians in the end bring a subjective agenda to bear on their reading of the evidence? Is it possible that Irving lost his case not because of his biased history but because his agenda was unacceptable? The central issue in the trial—as for Evans in this book—was not the past itself, but the way in which historians study the past. In a series of short, sharp chapters, Richard

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Author

Richard J. Evans, Sir Richard J. Evans FBA FRSL FRHistS

Publisher

Basic Civitas Books

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585417547

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Law, Fiction

Rating

4.18 / 5 (474 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14