In 1972, David Irving signed an agreement with a major London publisher for a biography of Winston Churchill to complement his flagship work, Hitler’s War. By the time the first Churchill volume was ready, he was under global attack for the work on Hitler, and nobody protested when he took Churchill’s War to a tiny publisher in West Australia, Veritas, instead.
The first volume appeared in 1987. At Veritas’s invitation, the author made a global speaking tour promoting the work. It went straight to the Number 1 position on The Sydney Morning Herald’s best-seller list. This triumph only added to the attempts to silence David Irving.
It turned out to have been his last global tour. Pressure was applied to many countries not to allow him in again. Fortunately, the United States has a tradition of free speech, even for unpopular and radical thinkers. Mr Irving delivered this talk to an audience in Anaheim, Calif., on October 17, 1987. Many of the well-documented opinions that he espouses on Churchill’s motives and the origins of World War II are not only new but also harrowing to those brought up on the traditional view of history.
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David’s presentation on “Churchill’s War” is superb. It is as animated and incisive as one might expect from an author who unhesitatingly dissects all of his subjects. And the delivery is punctuated with the right amount of humor and sauce to make it eminently entertaining. Including the impression of the loathsome warpig himself, Churchill. David nails it! I would have liked a few more direct quotes or a reading or two of passages from the book, but I understand it was a busy schedule and the speaker was trying to accommodate questions. Absolutely worth the purchase price. Something I will view several more times in future. And it was the reason I have since bought 3 more of David’s DVD presentations!