History on trial : my day in court with David Irving : Lipstadt, Deborah E : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-328) and index

A personal and scholarly odyssey -- The defense strategy -- Auschwitz : a forensic tour -- Our objective changes -- "All rise!" -- Irving in the box : not a denier but a victim -- The chain of documents -- The Holocaust : random killings or systematic genocide? -- Queues and gas chamber controversies -- An American professor -- Exonerating Hitler, excoriating the Allies -- Fighting words -- Revolting calculations -- Lying about Hitler -- The diary of Anne Frank : a novel? -- Our German contingent -- Cavorting with thugs or guilt by association? -- One-person gas chambers and white people's polkas -- The final scene -- Judgment day : phone chains, psalms, and sleepless survivors -- Enormous thanks -- The "jester's costume."

A chronicle of the author's five-year legal battle with writer David Irving, a prolific supporter of Holocaust denial, describes how the author and a team of experts defended against Irving's libel suit while exposing his distortions of history