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This is the only book from the perspective of the defendant who emerged victorious. It features reviews on book pages of national newspapers, and in history magazines. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her five-year legal battle with David Irving that culminated in a sensational trial in 2000. In her acclaimed 1993 book…

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If the name Deborah Lipstadt seems familiar to you, it probably is, as she is almost certainly the most famous scholar of antisemitism.

This book will tell the story of why she became famous, which was dramatized in the Hollywood film Denial starring Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt.

I could have recommended many of Lipstadt’s books, but this one has both the compelling story of how she was sued for libel by the Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust denier David Irving, while also providing a solid introduction to what has been one of her main areas of research, which is documenting and…

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