{"product_id":"the-case-for-auschwitz-evidence-from-the-irving-trial-paperback-softback-9780253022981","title":"The Case for Auschwitz; Evidence from the Irving Trial (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253022981","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Case for Auschwitz\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEvidence from the Irving Trial\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Jan Van Pelt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253022981\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 March 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e592 pages, 132 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 3.1 cm, 1.066 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough at times potentially difficult for the lay reader, this book is worth reading for its explanation of how and why Auschwitz became central in the Irving-Lipstadt trial, as well as why the gas chambers have become so important for Holocaust denial. It is a significant contribution to the Holocaust canon.\u003c\/p\u003e (Jewish Book Council) \u003cp\u003eReaders of this book, which will become the sine qua non of all writing about the Holocaust, should be warned that it describes the gruesome nature of Holocaust history, and the equally gruesome role of those who have sought to deny it.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Jerusalem Post) \u003cp\u003eFascinating insights into the conduct of the case and the main personalities . . .\u003c\/p\u003e (Jewish Chronicle) \u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the book is the methodical and chilling presentation of materials presented at the trial . . . interwoven with Irving's testimony and defense. Van Pelt has arranged an enormous amount of complex material succinctly and to great effect. Read as a whole, the book is a stunning courtroom drama and a vital document of historical evidence. This is an important addition to Holocaust literature and 20th-century history.\u003c\/p\u003e (Publishers Weekly (starred review)) \u003cp\u003eThe Irving case has done for the new century what the Nuremberg tribunals or the Eichmann trial did for earlier generations.\u003c\/p\u003e (The Daily Telegraph) \u003cp\u003eThe newly released paperback version of Van Pelt's definitive 2002 book The Case of Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial shows that the best defense against malicious efforts to doubt the obvious is exhaustive familiarity with sources coupled with simple logic. . . . These are just two small examples from Van Pelt's massive study, whose overwhelming empirical heft leaves no doubt about Auschwitz's harrowing historicity.\u003c\/p\u003e (Jewish Review of Books)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz as a death camp played a central role in these proceedings. Irving had based his alleged denial of the Holocaust in part on a 1988 report by an American execution specialist, Fred Leuchter, which claimed that there was no evidence for homicidal gas chambers in Auschwitz. In connection with their defense, Penguin and Lipstadt engaged architectural historian Robert Jan van Pelt to present evidence for our knowledge that Auschwitz had been an extermination camp where up to one million Jews were killed, mainly in gas chambers. Employing painstaking historical scholarship, van Pelt prepared and submitted an exhaustive forensic report that he successfully defended in cross-examination in court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreliminary Table of Contents:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. The Negationists' Challenge to Auschwitz\u003cbr\u003e2. Marshaling the Evidence\u003cbr\u003e3. Intentional Evidence\u003cbr\u003e4. Confessions and Trials\u003cbr\u003e5. \"Witnesses Despite themselves\"\u003cbr\u003e6. Auschwitz at the Irving Trial\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656112075032,"sku":"9780253022981","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-case-for-auschwitz-evidence-from-the-irving-trial-paperback-softback-9780253022981","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}