The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father ( whom he never met ), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.

It was Irving's failure as an " objective historian " not his right wing views that caused him to loose his libel case, as a " conscientious historian " would not have " deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence " to support his political views.

Henry Irving's first attempt at the role, at the Lyceum Theatre, London in 1875, was a failure.

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 reputation as an historian was widely discredited after he brought an unsuccessful libel case against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books.

During the Second World War, Irving's father was an officer aboard the light cruiser HMS Edinburgh.

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

There was consequently considerable interest in Irving's book, which was illustrated with graphic pictures, and it became an international best-seller.

At the libel proceedings against Irving, Watt declined Irving's request to testify, appearing only after a subpoena was ordered.

A note in Himmler's telephone log from 30 November 1941 saying " no liquidation " was to be the centrepiece of Irving's efforts in Hitler's War to prove that Hitler was ignorant of the Holocaust

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.

Sydnor remarked that Irving's statement that the Einsatzgruppen were in charge in the death camps seems to indicate that he was not familiar with the history of the Holocaust, as the Einsatzgruppen were in fact mobile death squads who had nothing to do with the death camps.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 ).

Evans ' report was the most comprehensive, in-depth examination of Irving's work:

As a result of Irving's success with Dresden, members of Germany's extreme right wing assisted him in contacting surviving members of Hitler's inner circle.

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 Washington Irving's story " The Devil and Tom Walker " set in 1727, Irving tells how Tom asks " the black man " who he is.

Irving's twin brother Nicholas Irving has said that " David used to run toward bombed out houses shouting heil Hitler ", a statement which Irving repudiates and says is " untrue.

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.

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.

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.

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 ".

") George Bernard Shaw, a theatre critic at the time who was jealous of Irving's connection to Ellen Terry ( whom Shaw himself wanted in his own plays ), conceded Irving's genius after Irving died.

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 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.

Irving's brother is writer / director David Irving ( not the British author of the same name ) and her sister is singer / teacher of deaf children Katie Irving.

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.

More recently, Washington Irving's famous 1819 story " Rip Van Winkle " tells of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up 20 years in the future, when he has been forgotten, his wife dead, and his daughter grown up.

Van Pelt has argued that, with the failure of Irving's political career, he felt freer to associate with Holocaust deniers.

Whether Irving's relationship with Terry was romantic as well as professional has been the subject of much speculation.

Whether Irving's long, spectacularly successful relationship with his leading lady Ellen Terry was romantic as well as professional has been the subject of much historical speculation.

It has made significant appearances in at least five novels, including John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and it continues to be pored over by historians, social scientists, and graduate students.

Henry Irving's portrayal of an aristocratic, proud Shylock ( first seen at the Lyceum in 1879, with Portia played by Ellen Terry ) has been called " the summit of his career ".

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.

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.

The story, from Irving's collection of short stories entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, has worked itself into known American folklore / legend through literature and film.

" 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.

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.

* Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving's 1819 story, is about a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up twenty years in the future, where he has been forgotten, his wife has died, and his daughter has grown up.