Ronald A. (rarendt) reviewed on + 107 more book reviews
I did not finish this book - and it is not the first David Irving book I did not finish.
I discarded "Churchill's War" after only a few pages. Churchill is one of my heroes, and I could see right off that Irving's goal was a hatchet job. I lasted about twenty pages into "The Trail of the Fox", a Rommel biography; just didn't like the tone of the book.
The back cover of this book describes Irving as a "journalist, historian" and I've come to believe he is more interested in sensationalism or some sort of new slant than he is in actual documented facts. I did read the first 91 pages of this book before I quit, so there is less scandal-mongering in it than in some of his other work. I discarded it because there is too much later and better-documented work on the same subject.
Add to this the fact that Irving seems to have become in later life rather a Holocaust denier, which accounts for his loss of popularity and the fact that some of his books have become relatively rare.
I discarded "Churchill's War" after only a few pages. Churchill is one of my heroes, and I could see right off that Irving's goal was a hatchet job. I lasted about twenty pages into "The Trail of the Fox", a Rommel biography; just didn't like the tone of the book.
The back cover of this book describes Irving as a "journalist, historian" and I've come to believe he is more interested in sensationalism or some sort of new slant than he is in actual documented facts. I did read the first 91 pages of this book before I quit, so there is less scandal-mongering in it than in some of his other work. I discarded it because there is too much later and better-documented work on the same subject.
Add to this the fact that Irving seems to have become in later life rather a Holocaust denier, which accounts for his loss of popularity and the fact that some of his books have become relatively rare.
