Sir John Keegan called it "amongst the half-dozen most important books on 1939-45", marklv and said:
It's really entertaining, drawing on previously unreleased diaries and private correspondence of Rommel, Goebbels, Hitler's doctor and secretaries.
But of course, Irving doesn't toe the line of Holocaust scholarship and has done Austrian prison time as a denier (amongst other things, he believes Himmler was the driver behind the Final Solution, and offered a cash reward if anyone could find written evidence Hitler authorized it).
You can happily ignore this crap and concentrate on its amazing 'inside' version of the command decisions at the highest level on the Axis side. Hitler comes across as being obsessed with foreign/military policy, and surprisingly weak in domestic matters ... fools like Goering and Hess are tolerated for way too long ...
"David Irving knows more than anyone alive about the German side of the Second World War. He discovers archives unknown to official historians and turns their contents into densely footnoted narratives that consistently provoke controversy... His greatest achievement is Hitler's War, which has been described as `the autobiography the Führer did not write' and is indispensable to anyone seeking to understand the war in the round."
It's really entertaining, drawing on previously unreleased diaries and private correspondence of Rommel, Goebbels, Hitler's doctor and secretaries.
But of course, Irving doesn't toe the line of Holocaust scholarship and has done Austrian prison time as a denier (amongst other things, he believes Himmler was the driver behind the Final Solution, and offered a cash reward if anyone could find written evidence Hitler authorized it).
You can happily ignore this crap and concentrate on its amazing 'inside' version of the command decisions at the highest level on the Axis side. Hitler comes across as being obsessed with foreign/military policy, and surprisingly weak in domestic matters ... fools like Goering and Hess are tolerated for way too long ...
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