Roberto wrote:Scott Smith wrote:Wolf wrote:'Publishing' his books on the net, well, there is something desperate about that... not to say pathetic...
Well, the books are free, uncensored, and so much the better for the intellectually curious.
Who are the "intellectually curious"?
They know who they are, whether they like Irving or not; they study, absorb, keep an open mind, and learn.
Of the two I read, I liked The Trail of the Fox.
The other one, Uprising, about the Hungarian revolt of 1956, was also not so bad - except for funny remarks like Hungary being the traditional separation wall between Latin romanticism, German materialism and Slav sub-culture, which reminded me of
Making hay out of straw, I think. The same can be said for any "civilized" society on the frontiers with another, culturally or otherwise. That is why the Romans called the Germans barbarians. Here is the offending passage:
David Irving wrote:
POOR HUNGARY! A thousand years of history had ended. Compressed into
36,000 square miles of rolling plains, their country disembowelled by rapacious neighbours after two world wars, these ten million had seldom enjoyed any but the briefest respite from repression and enslavement. They prided themselves on being the farthest outpost of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism in Eastern Europe, and on having introduced parliamentary and constitutional government into Eastern Europe centuries before their neighbours; their eastern frontier marked the traditional divide between German materialism, Latin romanticism and Slav sub-culture.
Uprising, P. 30.
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