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 faulted the Allied leaders, most notably Winston Churchill, for the eventual escalation of war, and claimed that the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 was a " preventive war " forced on Hitler to avert an alleged impending Soviet attack.

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 time as editor of the Carnival Times was controversial because of the contents of a " secret supplement " he added to the magazine.

It is Irving's sixth published novel, and has been adapted into a film of the same name and a stage play by Peter Parnell.

During 1914 he toured with Miss Darragh ( Letitia Marion Dallas, d. 1917 ) in Laurence Irving's play The Unwritten Law, and he appeared at the Old Vic in 1914 as Malcolm in Macbeth, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, and the gravedigger in Hamlet, among many other roles.

The chief remaining novelties at the Lyceum, during Irving's term as sole manager ( the theatre passed, at the beginning of 1899, into the hands of a limited liability company ) were Arthur Conan Doyle's Waterloo ( 1894 );< ref > see King, Henry Irving's ' Waterloo < nowiki >'</ nowiki ></ ref > J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur in 1895 ; Cymbeline, in which Irving played Iachimo, in 1896 ; Sardou's Madame Sans-Gene in 1897 ; and Peter the Great, a play by Laurence Irving, the actor's second son, in 1898.

A full London tour was on and, before it was over, Ethel created, on New Years Day 1898, Euphrosine in Peter the Great at the Lyceum, the play having been written by Irving's son, Laurence.

Irving's first stage appearance was at age 2, portraying a bit-part character (" Princess Primrose ") in a play which her father directed.

The play also shares the plot element of a ghostly crew of Dutch sailors on the Hudson with Washington Irving's short story Rip Van Winkle.

** Howard Hughes speaks by telephone to denounce Clifford Irving's supposed biography of him.

For example, Henry Irving's 1892 King Lear offered spectacles such as Lear's death beneath a cliff at Dover, his face lit by the red glow of a setting sun ; at the expense of cutting 46 % of the text, including the blinding of Gloucester.

This was reinforced when Workman looked at several plays by Shakespeare, which showed similar variations ( from 3. 4 to 10. 4 per page of Irving's one-volume edition ), as summarized in the second diagram on the right.

Irving's intention in Hitler's War to clean away the " years of grime and discoloration from the facade of a silent and forbidding monument " to reveal the real Hitler, whose reputation Irving claimed had been slandered by historians.

Irving's performance at the Der Stern press conference where he violently harangued Trevor-Roper until ejected by security led him to be featured prominently on the news ; the next day, Irving appeared on Today television show as a featured guest.

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.

Several of these statements were cited by the judge's decision in Irving's lawsuit against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt, leading the judge to conclude that Irving " had on many occasions spoken in terms which are plainly racist.

A marked change in Irving's reputation can be seen in the surveys of the historiography of the Third Reich produced by Ian Kershaw.

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.

He had been interrupted while giving an invited speech at David Irving's instigation ; his talk followed immediately one by Robert Faurisson.

The libretto is an adaptation by H. B. Farnie of Washington Irving's famous tale.

* A story about a writer creating a story ( e. g. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O ' Brien, Stephen King's Misery and Secret Window, Secret Garden, Ian McEwan's Atonement, The Counterfeiters by André Gide, John Irving's The World According to Garp, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Oracle Night by Paul Auster, More Bears!

The Golden Legend may have been the source for retellings of the Seven Sleepers in Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in a poem by Goethe, Washington Irving's " Rip van Winkle ", H. G.

The fortunes of the house were at a low ebb when the tide was turned by Irving's sudden success as Mathias in The Bells, a version of Erckmann-Chatrian's Le Juif polonais by Leopold Lewis, a property which Irving had found for himself.

The Life by his son Henry Roscoe ( 2 vols., London, 1906 ) contains full details of Roscoe's career, and there are references to him in the Autobiographical Sketches of De Quincey, and in Washington Irving's Sketch Book.

He was a friend of Washington Irving and may have served as inspiration for the character Ichabod Crane in Irving's story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ".

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 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 ").

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.

Broszat criticized Irving's claim that because of one telephone note written by Himmler stating " No liquidation " in regards to a train convoy of German Jews passing through Berlin to Riga ( whom the SS intended to have all shot upon arrival ) on 30 November 1941 that this proved that Hitler did not want to see the Holocaust happen.