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After the success of the Dresden book, Irving continued writing, including some works of revisionist history.

In 1964, he wrote The Mare's Nest, an account of the German secret weapons program and the Allied intelligence countermeasures against it ; translated the Memoirs of Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel in 1965 ( edited by Walter Görlitz ); and in 1967 published Accident: The Death of General Sikorski.

In the latter book, Irving claimed that the plane crash which killed Polish government in exile leader General Władysław Sikorski in 1943 was really an assassination ordered by Winston Churchill, so as to enable Churchill to betray Poland to the Soviet Union.

Irving's book inspired the highly controversial 1967 play Soldiers by his friend, the German playwright Rolf Hochhuth, where Hochhuth depicts Churchill ordering the " assassination " of General Sikorski.

Also in 1967, he published two more works: The Virus House, an account of the German nuclear energy project for which Irving conducted many interviews, and The Destruction of Convoy PQ-17, in which he blamed the British escort group commander, Commander Jack Broome for the catastrophic losses of the Convoy PQ-17.

Amid much publicity, Broome sued Irving for libel in October 1968, and in February 1970, after 17 days of deliberation before London's High Court, Broome won.

Irving was forced to pay £ 40, 000 in damages, and the book was withdrawn from circulation.