Seconds after take-off from Gibraltar, General Sikorski’s aircraft hit the sea. David Irving follows the witnesses, wreckage and wartime diplomacy behind a crash whose cause his investigation leaves unresolved. Signed hardback copy.
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The flight had barely begun when General Władysław Sikorski’s aircraft plunged into the sea off Gibraltar. Poland’s prime minister in exile was dead; the pilot was the only survivor. In Accident: The Death of General Sikorski, David Irving reconstructs the journey that ended on 4 July 1943 and examines the inquiries that followed.
DAVID IRVING’S RECONSTRUCTION
The investigation moves between the airfield, the wreckage and the witness stand. Guards, divers, ground crew and passengers’ companions supply different pieces of the account. Missing manifests, the aircraft’s cargo, the pilot’s recollections and tests of the flight controls become central questions.
Behind the aviation inquiry lies Poland’s precarious position in the Allied coalition. Irving follows the rupture with Stalin over Katyn, disputes about Poland’s frontiers and the pressure on Sikorski’s government in London.
First published in 1967, the book draws on official proceedings, diplomatic papers, contemporary reporting and interviews. It weighs mechanical failure, pilot error, loading and sabotage theories, while questioning the inquiry’s certainty. The closing chapter leaves the cause unresolved; the book does not establish an assassination.
One signed hardback copy, listed at 238 pages. Copy reference: SI-1-ACC.
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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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