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By Mark Weber ∙ December 1, 1991
The Holocaust on Trial: The Case of Ernst Zündel, by Robert Lenski. Decatur, Ala.: The Reporter Press, 1990. Paperback. 544 pages. Photographs. Index. ISBN: 0-9623220-0-8. (Available from the IHR for $ 29.00, plus $ 2.00 postage and handling. [check with www.ihr.org for current availability and price; ed.]) Anyone with an interest in twentieth century history…
By Nelson Rosit ∙ April 1, 1992
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, by David Hackett Fischer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, hardbound, 946 pages, illustrations, maps, index, $39.95. ISBN 0-19-503794-4. David Hackett Fischer has performed several notable services in writing Albion's Seed. First, he has brought to American historiography the approach of the French school of the Annales begun…
By John Cobden ∙ July 1, 1991
Witness for the Defense, by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Hardbound. 288 pages. Illustrations. $ 19.95. ISBN: 0-312-05537-4. Eyewitness testimony is the cornerstone of the Holocaust story. Much more than physical or documentary evidence, the accounts of “Holocaust survivors” have been crucial in convincing people that millions of European…
By Thomas J. Marcellus ∙ July 1, 1991
Never Forget. Produced by Robert Radnitz. Directed by Joseph Sargent. Turner Pictures, Inc. 1991. 2 hours. Never Forget , Turner Broadcasting's version of the “Mel Mermelstein story,” which hit the airwaves nationwide via the TNT cable network on the evening of April 8, 1991 – and in at least seven airings during the week that…
By Robert Clive ∙ October 1, 1991
The Web of Disinformation: Churchill's Yugoslav Blunder, by David Martin. San Diego and New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1990. Hb., 425 pp., $29.95; ISBN 0-15-18074-3. In the weeks preceding Hitler's pre-emptive attack on Stalin, events in the Balkans took a turn for the worse. On March 25, 1941, Yugoslav Prime Minister Cvetkovic went to Vienna,…
By Robert Faurisson ∙ July 1, 1991
Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers. Jean-Claude Pressac. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation; 1989. The lessons of a soccer field and a swimming pool In 1983, Klarsfeld and Pressac published a French version of the Auschwitz Album (published by Le Seuil).[8] Pressac drew up a misleading plan of Birkenau (p. 43) on…
By Karl Brecht ∙ October 1, 1990
Not Guilty at Nuremberg: The German Defense Case, by Carlos Porter. Brighton, England: Historical Review Press, n.d., pb., 22 pp., photographs, $5.00. ISBN: The Nuremberg Trials are arguably the gravest miscarriage of justice since the witch trials of pre-Enlightenment Europe and colonial America. At the close of the Second World War, the Allies arrested the…
By Arthur S. Ward ∙ October 1, 1990
The Second World War, by John Keegan. New York: Viking, 1990, hardbound, 608 pages, photographs, maps, bibliography, index, $29.95. ISBN: 0-670-82359-7. The latest book written by John Keegan, currently the most widely read military historian on both sides of the Atlantic, is a survey of the Second World War. Released in the U.K. on the…
By Robert Clive ∙ October 1, 1990
Roosevelt and Hitler: Prelude to War, by Robert E. Herzstein. New York: Paragon House, 1989, hardbound, 500 pages, photographs, index, $24.95. ISBN: 1-55778-021-8 Among those who are essentially sympathetic with his presidency, opinion about Franklin D. Roosevelt’s role in the period leading up to Pearl Harbor is divided. During the late 1930's, FDR promised “time…
By James Hawkins ∙ October 1, 1990
The Spanish Armada: The Experience of War in 1588 by Felipe Fernandez-Artnesto. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, hardbound, 300 pages, index, illustrations, $22.95. ISBN: 0-19-822926-7. For over four hundred years, the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 has been celebrated by the English as a glorious God-sent victory in which the Protestant David…
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