David John Cawdell Irving

Apr23: Just acquired this book at a used book sale. Went to enter in LT, but every available title includes, "...Inside the Allied Command". My book makes no reference anywhere about this suffix added at the end. So I ended up manually adding the book to my Library. I noted during past collection reviews that LT mentioned that I had several duplicate books in my Library, but the titles were different. After opening the respective books, yes, the content was same but cover and/or titles were different. Maybe a tool to entice buyers or when they change publishers for subsequent editions, the title gets modified. Very confusing. Resulted in thinning my collection some.

I thought this was an interesting book. The title says it all. The relationship between WW2 ETO Allied land generals was all over the place. Brits vs. American. French vs. everyone. American vs. American. Air generals against each other. Focus of various prolific personalities like Monty vs. Ike. Ike vs. Devers. Patton vs. Monty and so on. Seems like William Simpson of the US 9th Army was the only general who seemed to get along with any one on a regular basis. I have read various general officer biographies so there was not a lot of new information for me. But, enough to capture my interest.

I noted the author, David Irving, is fairly prolific himself. Quite the writer. Upon reviewing his background on Wikipedia, he seems to a Holocaust denier so his track record might be slightly tainted (in my view). But the book was still good with no apparent wandering into his 'other' background.… (more)

Este libro estaba en la biblioteca de mi tia (heredado de otro tio). Es un libro muy bien escrito sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial desde una perspectiva alemana.

Pero es un libro peligroso porque es un libro que intenta absolver a Hitler de sus errores y de sus crimenes, especialmente sobre el Holocausto. En la edición que yo leí el argumento era que Hitler estaba muy ocupado peleando una guerra y que el Holocausto fue un "desafortunado exceso" de los secuaces de Hitler.

Entiendo que en otras ediciones va más allá y hoy se sabe que David Irving es un negador del holocausto por lo que toda su obra debe leerse con cuidado.

Este libro en especial que siempre pinta a Hitler como un tipo razonable.… (more)