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Hitler's War #2
Войната на Хитлер: том 2
За целите на тази военна биография на Адолф Хитлер английският историк Дейвид Ървинг мислено сяда на бюрото на германския диктатор и се опитва през неговия поглед да пресъздаде всичките събития, които първоначално издигат Фюрера на Третия райх до властелин на Европа, а след това водят до краха на неговата империя и личния му край.
Използвайки информация от германски военни архиви и документи, както и от непубликувани дневници, бележки и кореспонденция на водещи фигури в Райха, Ървинг проследява „Войната на Хитлер“ от ремилитаризацията на Рейнската област и Аншлуса с Австрия, през нападението над Полша, Скандинавските държави, Франция и Балканите, до „кръстоносния поход“ срещу СССР, последвалите военни поражения на всички фронтове и последните дни в бункера в обкръжения Берлин.
След като отнема 13 години на автора да я напише, първото издание на тази книга излиза през 1977 г. и моментално се превръща в бестселър, преведен на много езици. Заради нетрадиционния начин, по който е написана, интересния поглед върху събитията и защото цитира документи, които други историци не са успели да открият, тя е използвана за обучение във Военната академия на САЩ в Уест Пойнт и Кралската военна академия „Сандхърст“ във Великобритания и заема видно място в университетските библиотеки по цял свят.
Използвайки информация от германски военни архиви и документи, както и от непубликувани дневници, бележки и кореспонденция на водещи фигури в Райха, Ървинг проследява „Войната на Хитлер“ от ремилитаризацията на Рейнската област и Аншлуса с Австрия, през нападението над Полша, Скандинавските държави, Франция и Балканите, до „кръстоносния поход“ срещу СССР, последвалите военни поражения на всички фронтове и последните дни в бункера в обкръжения Берлин.
След като отнема 13 години на автора да я напише, първото издание на тази книга излиза през 1977 г. и моментално се превръща в бестселър, преведен на много езици. Заради нетрадиционния начин, по който е написана, интересния поглед върху събитията и защото цитира документи, които други историци не са успели да открият, тя е използвана за обучение във Военната академия на САЩ в Уест Пойнт и Кралската военна академия „Сандхърст“ във Великобритания и заема видно място в университетските библиотеки по цял свят.
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544 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1977
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About the author
David Irving
50 books431 followersDavid John Cawdell Irving is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. He was found to be a Holocaust denier in a UK court in 2000 as a result of a failed libel case.
Irving's works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). In his works, he argued that Adolf Hitler did not know of the extermination of Jews, or, if he did, he opposed it. Though Irving's negationist claims and views of German war crimes in World War II (and Hitler's responsibility for them) were never taken seriously by mainstream historians, he was once recognised for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents, which he held closely but stated were fully supportive of his conclusions. His 1964 book The Mare's Nest about Germany's V-weapons campaign of 1944-45 was praised for its deep research but criticised for minimising Nazi slave labour programmes.
By the late 1980s, Irving had placed himself outside the mainstream of the study of history, and had begun to turn from "'soft-core' to 'hard-core' Holocaust denial", possibly influenced by the 1988 trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel. That trial, and his reading of the pseudoscientific Leuchter report, led him to openly espouse Holocaust denial, specifically denying that Jews were murdered by gassing at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Irving's reputation as a historian was further discredited in 2000, when, in the course of an unsuccessful libel case he filed against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, High Court Judge Charles Gray determined in his ruling that Irving willfully misrepresented historical evidence to promote Holocaust denial and whitewash the Nazis, a view shared by many prominent historians. 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". In addition, the court found that Irving's books had distorted the history of Hitler's role in the Holocaust to depict Hitler in a favourable light.
Irving's works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). In his works, he argued that Adolf Hitler did not know of the extermination of Jews, or, if he did, he opposed it. Though Irving's negationist claims and views of German war crimes in World War II (and Hitler's responsibility for them) were never taken seriously by mainstream historians, he was once recognised for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents, which he held closely but stated were fully supportive of his conclusions. His 1964 book The Mare's Nest about Germany's V-weapons campaign of 1944-45 was praised for its deep research but criticised for minimising Nazi slave labour programmes.
By the late 1980s, Irving had placed himself outside the mainstream of the study of history, and had begun to turn from "'soft-core' to 'hard-core' Holocaust denial", possibly influenced by the 1988 trial of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel. That trial, and his reading of the pseudoscientific Leuchter report, led him to openly espouse Holocaust denial, specifically denying that Jews were murdered by gassing at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Irving's reputation as a historian was further discredited in 2000, when, in the course of an unsuccessful libel case he filed against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books, High Court Judge Charles Gray determined in his ruling that Irving willfully misrepresented historical evidence to promote Holocaust denial and whitewash the Nazis, a view shared by many prominent historians. 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". In addition, the court found that Irving's books had distorted the history of Hitler's role in the Holocaust to depict Hitler in a favourable light.
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April 9, 2021
Τεράστιο μεν, αλλά βιβλίο ιστορικό το οποίο είναι γραμμένο σαν ιστορικό μυθιστόρημα, προσφέροντας δράση και αγωνία κατά την ανάγνωση. Ο D.I. προσφέρει στον αναγνώστη την οπτική του Χίτλερ στον Δεύτερο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο και αναλύει τις επιδιώξεις, τα θέλω και τα πιστεύω του σχετικά με αυτόν. Πρόκειται για χρονικό τόσο του Δευτέρου Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου και του Ολοκαυτώματος- για το οποίο ο Irving διατηρεί τη δική του ιδιαίτερη άποψη σχετικά με την εμπλοκή του ίδιου του Χίτλερ σε αυτό-όσο και βιογραφία του Γερμανού δικτάτορα.
January 31, 2024
Отлично продължение на първия том. Книгата започва с началото на Операция "Барбароса" и приключва с битката за Берлин. Авторът много добре се е справил с опита си да ни покаже войната през погледа на Хитлер. Текстът върви леко и се чете лесно. Макар че предпочитам по-детейлно представяне на военната истроия не мога да отрека, че книгата ми хареса. Силно препоръчвам на всеки, който иска да види войната през една по-различна гледна точка. Един поглед върху фактите, който не е писан от победителите, както се случва обикновено.
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