David Irving recounts his imprisonment in Austria in 2005 and 2006, using notes made during his incarceration. This hardback edition presents his personal account of prison life and the events surrounding his detention.
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By David Irving | Hardcover edition
In November 2005, David Irving was arrested in Austria on charges related to speeches delivered seventeen years earlier. This memoir documents his thirteen months of imprisonment in Austrian jails, written from notes made during incarceration.
The work records the daily experience of imprisonment—the routines, the interactions with guards and fellow prisoners, the legal proceedings, and the conditions of confinement. Written as a contemporary diary rather than retrospective memoir, the account preserves the immediacy of the experience.
The memoir maintains the documentary approach characteristic of Irving's historical work, recording observations and conversations with the specificity of a field researcher. The result is an anthropological study of the Austrian prison system as experienced from within.
Of interest to scholars of European speech law, prison studies researchers, and collectors of Irving's complete works. The memoir provides unique documentation of early twenty-first century Austrian incarceration.
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Published by Focal Point Publications.
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David Irving is a renowned British historian and author of over 30 books. Known for his meticulous primary source research, he has spent decades in archives across the globe, unearthing diaries, documents, and first-hand accounts that have reshaped our understanding of the Second World War and its key figures.
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