History on trial : my day in court with David Irving / Deborah E. Lipstadt.

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

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Penguin (Firm) -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Trials (Libel) -- England.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.

Holocaust denial.

Libel and slander -- England.

Introduction by Anthony Lewis

Note to the reader

Prologue: the letter

The prelude: 1. A personal and scholarly odyssey

2. The defense strategy

3. Auschwitz: a forensic tour

4. Our objective changes

The trial: 5. "All rise!"

6. Irving in the box: not a denier but a victim

7. The chain of documents

8. The holocaust: random killings or systematic genocide?

9. Queues and gas chamber controversies

10. An American professor

11. Exonerating Hitler, exonerating the allies

12. Fighting words

13. Revolting calculations

14. Lying about Hitler

15. The Diary of Anne Frank: a novel?

16. Our German contingent

17. Cavorting with thugs or guilt by association?

18. One-person gas chambers and white people's polkas

19. The final score

The aftermath: 20. Judgment day: phone chains, psalms, and sleepless survivors

21. Enormous thanks

22. The "jester's costume"

Afterword by Alan Dershowitz

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.

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xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm