How long does it take to read Telling Lies About Hitler?
The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial
Telling Lies About Hitler by Richard J. Evans takes about 6 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 363 pages, about 99,825 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In April 2000 a High Court judge branded the writer David Irving a racist, an antisemite, a Holocaust denier, and a falsifier of history. The key expert witness against Irving was the Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans who describes here, in a book which several publishers have been intimidated to withdrawing, his involvement in the case. Recounting his discovery of Irving’s connections with far right Holocaust deniers in the United States and of how Irving falsified the documentary evidence on the Second World War, Evans reflects generally and eloquently on the interaction of historical and legal rules of evidence. Evans argues that the Irving trial does for the twenty-first century what the Eichmann trial did for the second half of the twentieth. It vindicates history’s ability to come to reasoned conclusions on the basis of a careful examination of the evidence, even when eyewitnesses and survivors are no longer around to tell the tale. (Source: Verso Books)
Subjects: Historiography, Trials, litigation, Trials (Libel), Penguin (Firm), Holocaust denial, Trials
