The Morell Diaries vanished in 1945, but turned up in 1981 in the National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA, which transferred them to the National Archives. Was Hitler clinically mad? What diseases laid him low in 1941 and 1944 - at crucial moments in his nation’s history? David Irving discovered, transcribed, translated, and annotated the long-lost diaries of the infamous Dr Theo Morell, Adolf Hitler's doctor from 1937-1945; he provides a fascinating medical history of Hitler during his years of power. Laminated hardcover.
David Irving, described by a UK judge as the leading expert on World War II, examines the spontaneous 1956 uprising of the Hungarians against rule from Moscow – against the faceless, indifferent, incompetent functionaries who had turned their country into a pit of Marxist misery in one short decade: the funkies, Irving calls them, adapting the Hungarian word funkcionariusok.
He traced and questioned the men who had been kidnapped, exiled, imprisoned and put on trial with the prime minister Imre Nagy, who was sentenced to death, and members of Nagy’s family. It is Irving’s assessment of Imre Nagy that will raise eyebrows, together with his discovery among official records of evidence that antisemitism was one of the motors of the popular uprising.
The resulting study is an autopsy of a failed revolution, viewed both from inside the council chambers of the powerful and from street level. This is a compelling drama, with a cast of ten million.
The Guardian: “Irving skilfully combines sources . . . The result is disconcerting, rather like reading a film script, but it works particularly well.”
Laminated hardback.
NOW BACK IN PRINT!
David Irving's much-sought biography of Erhard Milch, Hermann Göring's deputy, the field-marshal who founded Lufthansa and then created the Luftwaffe. Reprinted in 2018. Special price here for this Focal Point Classic series reprint: $50 (hardback).
This book Royal Navalese tells the Real History of the arcane language spoken by Royal Navy sailors until the end of the British Empire after 1945, compiled by RN Commander John Irving, pictured in 1920s, father of the historian David Irving, and wittily illustrated by Beryl Irving, David Irving’s mother. Hardcover.
First Edition 1946. Republished 2020 by Focal Point Publications, London.
This book tells the Real History of the heroic RAF moonlight attack on Germany’s Ruhr Dams in May 1943, immortalised by the movie The Dambusters. The author’s gripping account is based on his interviews with Bomber Command officers and official British and German documents, and on exclusive access to the private papers and diaries of Barnes Wallis – the British scientist who invented the unique “bouncing bomb” which smashed the dams. The book reads like a thriller, and will excite readers of all ages. Hardcover.
David Irving's history of the inside story of the controversial war crimes trial of Hitler's associates – those who survived Allied orders to shoot on site if captured – based on the private papers and exclusive diaries of lawyers, judges, and defendants that were exclusively available to the author. Many unpublished color photos. Jacketed hardback.
This book tells the Real History of the attempt by Adolf Hitler’s nuclear scientists to build the atomic bomb. They were closer to success than people now like to believe...
Until 1942 they were ahead of the Allies. Then a German mathematician made a crucial mistake, which forced the team of atomic physicists to believe they could only build a nuclear reactor with Heavy Water. The one factory which distilled that costly liquid, drop by precious drop, was in the mountains of southern Norway, vulnerable to bombing attack - and to sabotage by daring British Special Operations teams. (This book was previously published in North America under the title "The German Atomic Bomb".) Laminated hardback.
A magnificent Focal Point reprint of a David Irving classic
From February 3, 1933, when he told his generals in secret of his ultimate ambition to invade and conquer the East, to September 3, 1939, when he left the Berlin Chancellery for the Polish front, Adolf Hitler had one obsessive goal – to wage war and achieve German revenge and hegemony. David Irving's exclusive interviews with Hitler's staff, and his use of original and unpublished firsthand material led him across Europe in search of documents and correspondence.
350 pages including 27 pages of extraordinary illustrations, many never seen before.
David Irving's best-selling history of the infighting between the top Allied generals during the 1944 invasion of Normandy, based on their unknown private letters and diaries. Used since then by every historian of that epic, it received brilliant reviews at the time. Laminated hardback.
David Irving's much-sought 1996 biography of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief. Out of print since 2001, now reprinted in better quality than ever, with forty pages of original photographs, many in colour, 752 pages. (hardback).