The author is the founder and editor of the Unz Review, a conservative American political website, and a one-time candidate for the governor of California.
The original title of this essay at Unz was: The Remarkable Historiography of David Irving. We changed it to give the reader a sense of the gist of the article
I’m very pleased to announce that our selection of HTML Books now contains works by renowned World War II historian David Irving, including his magisterial Hitler’s War, named by famed military historian Sir John Keegan as one of the most crucial volumes for properly understanding that conflict.
With
many millions of his books in print, including a string of best-sellers
translated into numerous languages, it’s quite possible that the
eighty-year-old Irving today ranks as the most
internationally-successful British historian of the last one hundred
years. Although I myself have merely read a couple of his shorter works,
I found these absolutely outstanding, with Irving regularly deploying
his remarkable command of the primary source documentary evidence to
totally demolish my naive History 101 understanding of major historical
events. It would hardly surprise me if the huge corpus of his writings
eventually constitutes a central pillar upon which future historians
seek to comprehend the catastrophically bloody middle years of our
hugely destructive twentieth century even after most of our other
chroniclers of that era are long forgotten...........https://russia-insider.com/en/history/david-irving-great-ww2-revisionist-historian-everyone-should-know-about/ri23699
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