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.”
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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), post free.
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.
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".) Laminate 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.