David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English Holocaust denier and author who has written several books on the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. His works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987), and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). Irving's reputation as a historian was discredited after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. The English court found that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, antisemite, and racist, who "for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence". Additionally, the court found that Irving's books had distorted the history of Hitler's role in the Holocaust in order to depict Hitler in a favourable light.