In the Spanish edition, La guerra de Hitler , Irving’s preface often includes disclaimers that he is not a Nazi sympathizer—claims that the London court later deemed deceptive. The book covers major military campaigns (Poland, France, Stalingrad, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge) while systematically omitting or reinterpreting evidence of the Holocaust, Einsatzgruppen massacres, and Hitler’s direct orders for genocide.
(e.g., studying how denial works), treat it as a primary source of disinformation — not as valid scholarship.
★★★☆☆ (3/5) – for narrative grip and historical importance as a case study in revisionism. Do not read as factual history.
Irving argued that Hitler had no knowledge of the mass extermination of Jews until late 1943 and that he actually tried to mitigate the excesses of his subordinates.