January 30, 2001

Without making the least attempt to check back with me, Mr Maccoby’s friend Lukács accused me of inventing documentary sources and of making up quotations for my books. Weidenfeld’s were not reckless enough to print such things, because they knew that no judge — and I mean NO judge — of the Queen’s Bench would have shown the slightest sympathy for them or their offshore author.

Mr Maccoby should not chide a reputable publishing firm, which has itself published many of my works, for their refusal to take such unnecessary risks. As for what he calls the “total failure” of my action against Lukács’s compatriot Deborah Lipstadt: it ain’t total until our Court of Appeal says so.

Yours faithfully,

©Focal Point 2001    write to David Irving