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Some newspaper and other reviews of David Irving’s books

• Three early reviews of David Irving, The Destruction of Dresden, by Richard Crossman, Sir Harold Nicholson, and The Economist
• 1964 newspaper reviews of David Irving’s second book The Mare’s Nest are overwhelmingly favourable
• In 1974 newspapers were ecstatic about David Irving’s history The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe: brief soundbites | H Montgomery Hyde, Books & Bookmen | Laurence Cotterell, The Times | Capt. Stephen Roskill, The Sunday Telegraph | The Sunday Times | New York Times | Army Times | Times Literary Supplement
• IRVING’S earlier book have sometimes shown exaggeration and lack of judgement. This one is scholarly, fair and highly informative. — A. J. P. Taylor, The Observer, March 10, 1974
• Canadian Globe & Mail newspaper published a warm view of Mr Irving’s talents as an historian and biographer — in 1979
• An expert reviewed The Virus House, the history of the German atomic bomb program (and a Prof Laurence Rose’s attack on a German Noble prize winner)
• Adras Mink reviews Uprising for The Hungarian., winter 2000, and reveals the internal dispute over whether the government should aid Mr Irving or not | Early Uprising reviews
• Lists of and Extracts from British and US reviews of David Irving’s best-selling Rommel biography, The Trail of the Fox
• Der Spiegel editorial, quoting Professor Hans Mommsen’s praise for David Irving’s Rommel biography in German
• John Lukacs finds nasty, petulant things to say about David Irving’s 1981 book The War Between the Generals
• New York Times reviewer Drew Middleton (1981) thinks that David Irving in The War Between the Generals, reduced the greatest campaign of World War II to the level of latrine gossip
• New York Times reviewer Prof Peter Hoffmann says richly documented biography of Hermann Göring is one in a series by one of the most successful researchers on Nazi Germany
• Magnificient reviews of David Irving’s ground breaking biography Hitler’s War
• David Irving – Churchill’s War Volume 1 Reviewed by Sir Anthony Montague-Browne, 1988, Churchill’s private secretary
• Gordon Craig reviews David Irving’s Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich for New York Review of Books, September 1996
• Selected pro- and contra- reviews of David Irving’s Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich | Richard Cohen: syndicated article, “Irving’s ‘Goebbels’ – No Need to Be Timid”
• Swedish newspaper review of David Irving’s Goebbels. Mastermind of the Third Reich
• German language review of David Irving, Nuremberg, the Last Battle
• Reviews of David Irving’s history of the German atomic bomb program, The Virus House
• How the popular Bavarian prime minister Franz-Josef Strauss praised David Irving’s Göring biography, in a letter to its translator Richard Giese
• German translatsion of IHR review of David Irving’s Nuremberg, the Last Battle
• Extract from John Keegan, The Battle for History: Refighting World War Two (Hutchinson, London, 1996): praise for David Irving’s Hitler’s War
• Reviews of David Irving’s biography of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
• Remarks by New Zealand academic Joel S. A. Hayward on David Irving’s biography of Hitler, Hitler’s War
• Reviewing histories of Nazi atomic bomb effort, a real expert gives Mr Irving’s book The Virus House high praise (pdf)