
David Irving
David Irving's worldwide bestseller on Adolf Hitler is based on diaries and documents exclusively available to him and thirty years of research and interviews with Hitler's generals and private staff. Jacketed hardback with new picture sections. Mentioned in the BBC, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NBCâŠ
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IN APRIL 1977 the publishing worlds of London and New York were startled by the appearance of David Irvingâs Hitlerâs War (Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. and The Viking Press Inc.) It was unique among biographies in its method of describing a major historical event - World War Two through the eyes of one of the dictators himself. âWhat Hitler did not order, or did not learn, does not figure in this book,â explains the author. âThe narrative of events unfolds in the precise sequence that Hitler himself became involved in them.â The first that the reader knows of a plot against Hitlerâs life is when the army traitor Count von Stauffenbergâs bomb explodes beneath the table at the FĂŒhrerâs headquarters. The investigation follows.
It is an unusual technique, but it works. The book sold thirty thousand copies in its first UK hardback edition and was often reprinted and translated after that. It became a recommended reference work at West Point, at Sandhurst, in military academies around the former Empire and in university libraries around the world, because it quoted diaries and documents that other famous historians had not troubled to find.
In 1991 Focal Point prepared a new edition, updated, revised and included The War Path, the authorâs narrative of Hitlerâs prewar years. Irving later described fierce publishing and public controversy around the Goebbels diaries and the bookâs later editions.
The Focal Point edition incorporated all the latest finds, including scores of illustrations, unknown colour photographs, the diaries of Hermann Göring and Hitlerâs controversial doctor Morell; and, for this edition, dramatic colour photographs taken by Hitlerâs film cameraman Walter Frentz. The 2002 Millennium edition was further updated with a sheaf of new evidence including the long-lost Gestapo interrogations staff â now in private American hands â of Rudolf Hessâs and SS and other documents intercepted by British codebreakers. Now in 2019, we are offering a new edition with even more unknown pictures, until November 30 at a special price.
Over 1,000 pages, with illustrations and photos

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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