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This is not only one of the best books I’ve read this year but one of the best books I have ever read. Originally published in 2001, this book provides an invaluable case study of why words and truth matter so much—perhaps now more than ever.
Even if you thought you knew this story through the 2016 film Denial about the libel suit Holocaust-denier David Irving brought in England against Deborah Lipstadt, an American expert on the Holocaust, this book will keep you enthralled and in suspense as the story unfolds.
Reading this book by renowned European historian Richard Evans, himself an expert witness for the defense in the trial, one gains incredible insights into the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath—and ourselves.
2 authors picked Lying about Hitler as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving 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 adviser for the defence, uses this famous trial as a lens for exploring a range of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's enterprise.