In 1996, the historian David Irving sued Penguin Books for libel, claiming he had been falsely labelled a Holocaust denier. The trial was one of the strangest to take place in an English court: the judge had to give a verdict on history. This is the story of a dramatic libel case and a meditation on truth and memory.
D.D. Guttenplan is an American writer who since 1994 has been living and reporting in London. He is currently a contributing editor of The Nation.
'Don Guttenplan sat through every day of the trial, and no wiser, more honest or more melancholy book will ever be written about it' Neal Ascherson 'Well written, this is the best overall account we have so far of the trial as a whole and the personalities involved in it' Sunday Telegraph
'Don Guttenplan sat through every day of the trial, and no wiser, more honest or more melancholy book will ever be written about it' Neal Ascherson 'Well written, this is the best overall account we have so far of the trial as a whole and the personalities involved in it' Sunday Telegraph
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