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Irving's and book
There was consequently considerable interest in Irving's book, which was illustrated with graphic pictures, and it became an international best-seller.
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.
Despite the criticism, the book sold well, as did all of Irving's books to that date.
Robert Harris, in his book Selling Hitler, suggested that an additional reason for Irving's change of mind over the authenticity of the alleged Hitler diaries was that the fake diaries contain no reference to the Holocaust, thereby buttressing Irving's claim in Hitler's War that Hitler had no knowledge of it.
Lutyens ' work in New Delhi is the focus of Robert Grant Irving's book Indian Summer.
According to Michael Holroyd's book about Irving and Terry, A Strange Eventful History, after Irving's death, Terry stated that she and Irving had been lovers and that: " We were terribly in love for a while ".
In the case of Washington Irving's Sketch Book, which contains " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " and " Rip Van Winkle " among others, the conceit is that the author of the book is not Irving, but a certain gentleman named Crayon.
Washington Irving's 1837 book describing the Bonneville expedition called it " Ogden's River ", the name used by many early travelers.
Starting in the mid-1820s, Quidor began creating paintings based on literary themes, including Washington Irving's short stories Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle and James Fenimore Cooper's book The Pioneers.
Some of his reviews attracted controversy, most notably in April 1996, when he praised Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners and later in September of the same year when he argued that David Irving's work was valuable because of what Craig saw as Irving's devil's advocate role.
In a review of Irving's Hitler's War in 1977, Lukacs commented that as a " right-wing revisionist " who had admired some of Irving's early works, he initially had high hopes for Hitler's War, but found the book to be " appalling ".
In letters of 25 October and 28 October 1997 Irving threatened to sue Lukacs for libel if he published his book, The Hitler of History without removing certain passages which were highly critical of Irving's work.
In an article first published in the Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte journal in 1977, later translated into English as " Hitler and the Genesis of the ‘ Final Solution ’: An Assessment of David Irving ’ s Theses ", Broszat criticized David Irving's argument in his book Hitler's War that Hitler was unaware of the Holocaust but did accept Irving's argument that there was no written order from Hitler for the " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ".
The siege of Baza is described in Washington Irving's book The Conquest of Granada.
Largely owing to Irving's book, the name Knickerbacker / Knickerbocker has passed into current use as a designation of the early Dutch settlers in New York and their descendants.
Jäckel in his turn wrote a series of newspaper articles later turned into the book David Irving's Hitler: A Faulty History Dissected attacking Irving and maintained that Hitler was very much aware of and approved of the Holocaust.

Irving's and most
In the first edition, Irving's estimates for deaths in Dresden were between 100, 000 and 250, 000 – notably higher than most previously published figures.
Evans ' report was the most comprehensive, in-depth examination of Irving's work:
The Lyceum tour alone netted Gillette nearly $ 100, 000, and it made the most money of all the productions in the final years of Irving's tenure at the Lyceum.
He has about 35 known canvases, most of which are based on Washington Irving's stories about Dutch New York, drawing inspiration from the Hudson Valley and from such English painters as William Hogarth, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Joseph Wright of Derby, and George Morland.
" Although originally regarded as an approach to domestic policy ( the founding instrument of the movement, Kristol's The Public Interest periodical, did not even cover foreign affairs ), through the influence of figures like Dick Cheney, Robert Kagan, Richard Perle, Kenneth Adelman and ( Irving's son ) Bill Kristol, it has become most famous for its association with the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration.

Irving's and Winston
The chief themes of Irving's German speeches were that the Allies and Axis states were equally culpable for war crimes, that the decision of Neville Chamberlain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that of Winston Churchill to continue the war in 1940, had been great mistakes that set Britain on a path of decline, and the Holocaust was just a " propaganda exercise ".

Irving's and Churchill
The rumour has been promoted by David Irving to support his unflattering view of Churchill ; it is difficult to prove or disprove Irving's claims.

Irving's and for
* John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany mentions the narrator, John, teaching Tess of the d ' Urbervilles to high school students.
Irving was proud of the " trail of chaos " he had created at the Hamburg press conference and the attendant publicity it had brought him, and in particular took a great deal of pride in his humiliation of Trevor-Roper, whom Irving strongly disliked for his criticism of Irving's methods and conclusions.
Irving was a frequent speaker for the DVU in the 1980s and the early 1990s, but the relationship ended in 1993 apparently because of concerns by the DVU that Irving's espousal of Holocaust denial might lead to the DVU being banned.
Irving's self-proclaimed mission was to guide " promising young men " in Germany in the " right direction " ( Irving has often stated his belief that women exist for a " certain task, which is producing us ", and should be " subservient to men "; leading, in Lipstadt's view, to a lack of interest on Irving's part in guiding young German women in the " right direction ").
Irving went on to assert that the " ship " was due for rough sailing because recently the Soviet government had allowed historians access to " the index cards of all the people who passed through the gates of Auschwitz ", and claimed that this would lead to " a lot of people are not claiming to be Auschwitz survivors anymore " ( Irving's statement about the index cards was incorrect ; what the Soviet government had made available in 1990 were the death books of Auschwitz, recording the weekly death tolls ).
Upon Irving's arrival in the UK he reaffirmed his position, stating that he felt " no need any longer to show remorse " for his Holocaust views.
People in favor of changing Irving's liquor laws saw the interest in the 2008 United States Presidential Election as a catalyst for changing the laws in their favor.
Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.
After also acting in Liverpool, Pinero joined Henry Irving's Lyceum Theatre company in London in 1876, where he acted in supporting roles for five years, and later played under the Bancrofts ' management at the Haymarket Theatre.
") There followed a 1939 production that Gielgud again directed at the Lyceum Theatre, historic for having been the professional home for Henry Irving's company.
Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.
In 1878 she joined Henry Irving's company as his leading lady, and for more than the next two decades she was considered the leading Shakespearean and comic actress in Britain.
He was nearly dismissed for interpreting Irving's direction, " You must imitate me ", as an instruction to give an impersonation of the star's well-known mannerisms.
In 1892, German composed music for a production of Henry Irving's version of Henry VIII at the Lyceum Theatre, London, where he incorporated elements of traditional old English dance.
The Orkney Rangers believe this may be one source for Washington Irving's tale, because his father was an Orcadian from the island of Shapinsay and would almost certainly have known the tale.
Gravesend is also briefly mentioned in John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, noting that the fictitious town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, is named after the original Gravesend in Kent.
Craven was the designer for Henry Irving's spectacular Shakespeare productions at the Lyceum Theatre.

Irving's and war
A major theme of Irving's writings since the 1980s was his belief that it had been a great blunder on the part of Britain to declare war on Germany in 1939, and that ever since then and as a result of that decision, Britain had slipped into an unstoppable decline.

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