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Over fifty years of primary-source history, reviewed by the world’s leading historians, military scholars, and major publications.

No praise can be too high for his indefatigable scholarly industry.

Hugh Trevor-RoperRegius Professor of History, Oxford

on Hitler’s War

David Irving is a patient researcher of unrivalled industry and success.

A.J.P. TaylorThe Observer, London

on Hitler’s War

Irving knows more than anyone alive about the German side of the Second World War. His work is indispensable to anyone seeking to understand the war in the round.

Sir John KeeganDefence Editor, The Daily Telegraph

on Hitler’s War

Major Publications

The Press

David Irving has rendered the British people a great service by revealing the full story of the Dresden bombing. This event forms a vital part of British, German and human history.

The Economist

on The Destruction of Dresden

Two books in English stand out from the vast literature of the Second World War. Chester Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe, published in 1952, and David Irving’s Hitler’s War. They do so because, from exactly opposing angles of vision, each tackles the strategy of the whole war and makes impressive sense of it.

Sir John Keegan

The Times Literary Supplement

on Hitler’s War

Irving’s greatest achievement — indispensable to anyone seeking to understand the war in the round.

Sir John Keegan

The Daily Telegraph

on Hitler’s War

A Rolls-Royce of a book.

Tina Rosenberg

The New York Times

on Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich

Anyone who wants to learn about the political acts of one of this century’s most able and most dangerous men should remember that what they are reading is one brilliant propagandist writing about another.

Gitta Sereny

The Observer, London

on Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich

Historians & Academics

Scholarly Recognition

Irving’s work is the best study we have of the German side of the Second World War, and we dare not disregard his views.

Gordon A. Craig

Professor of History, Stanford University

on Hitler’s War

He knows more about National Socialism than most professional scholars in his field. I always learn something from him.

Gordon A. Craig

The New York Review of Books

on Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich

Irving has ransacked the world’s archives; he is, at his best, a superb historical detective.

Sir Martin Gilbert

Official Biographer of Winston Churchill

A colossus of research.

Paul Addison

Historian, University of Edinburgh

Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.

Christopher Hitchens

Vanity Fair

Irving’s sources, unlike the conclusions which he draws from them, are usually sound. He has been unjustly ignored.

John Charmley

Historian, University of East Anglia

Irving must not be ignored. He has contributed much to research.

Rainer Zitelmann

Historian, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

History needs David Irvings.

Donald Cameron Watt

Professor of History, London School of Economics

Military Scholars

The Military Verdict

Irving has an extraordinary ability to describe and analyse Hitler’s conduct of military operations, which was his main occupation during the Second World War.

Sir John Keegan

Military Historian

on Hitler’s War

Irving has many of the qualities of the most creative historians. His skill as an archivist cannot be contested. He is certainly never dull.

Sir John Keegan

The Daily Telegraph

Irving has an all-consuming knowledge of a vast body of material.

Sir John Keegan

The Daily Telegraph

Irving’s years of research and devotion to uncovering the truth give readers the most accurate account we’re ever likely to obtain.

Sir Harold Nicolson

The Observer, London

on The Destruction of Dresden

Sir Martin GilbertOfficial Biographer of Winston Churchill

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