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ENDNOTES WILL BE FOUND FROM PAGE 842

HITLER’S WAR

and The War Path

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David Irving is the son of a Royal Navy commander. Educated at

Imperial College of Science & Technology and at University College

London, he subsequently spent a year in Germany working in a steel

mill and perfecting his ﬂuency in the German language. Among his

thirty books, the best-known include HITLER’S WAR; THE TRAIL OF

THE FOX: THE LIFE OF FIELD-MARSHAL ROMMEL; ACCIDENT, THE

DEATH OF GENERAL SIKORSKI;THE RISE AND FALL OF THE LUFTWAFFE;

GÖRING: A BIOGRAPHY, and NUREMBERG, THE LAST BATTLE. He has

translated several works by other authors. He lives in Grosvenor

Square, London, and has raised ﬁve daughters.

he published THE DESTRUCTION OF DRESDEN. This became a

best-seller in many countries. In

he issued a revised edition,

APOCALYPSE 1945, as well as his important biography, GOEBBELS.

MASTERMIND OF THE THIRD REICH. A second volume of CHURCH-

ILL’S WAR will appear shortly.

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David Irving

HITLER’S

WA R

and The War Path

‘Two books in English stand out from the vast literature of the

Second World War: Chester Wilmot’s The Struggle for Europe ,

published in 1952, and David Irving’s Hitler’s War ’

JOHN KEEGAN , Times Literary Supplement,

FOCAL POINT

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Josephine Irving

IN MEMORIAM

‒

Parforce (UK) Ltd

publication may be made without written permission. No part of this

publication may be reproduced, copied, or transmitted save with

written permission of the author in accordance with the provisions of

the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who does any

unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal

prosecution and civil claims for damages.

H ITLER ’ S W AR was first published by The Viking Press (NewYork) and

Hodder & Stoughton (London) in 1977; The War Path was published by

The Viking Press and Michael Joseph Ltd in 1979. A revised combined

edition of both volumes was published by Focal Point Publications in

1991. HITLER’S WAR AND THE WAR PATH has been revised and expanded

on the basis of materials available since then.

F OCAL P OINT P UBLICATIONS

Duke Street, London W1M 5DJ

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available

from the British Library

ISBN 1 872 197 108

Printed and bound in Great Britain by

Biddle & Co. Ltd, Guildford

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Contents

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Introduction

Prologue: The Nugget

Dictator by Consent

Triumph of the Will

‘One Day, the World’

First Lady

Goddess of Fortune

‘Green’

The Other Side of Hitler

103

Whetting the Blade

113

Munich

131

One Step Along a Long Path

153

In Hitler’s Chancellery

169

Fifty

181

Extreme Unction

187

The Major Solution

199

Pact with the Devil

215

Entr’acte: His First Silesian War

223

‘White’

237

Overtures

249

Incidents

261

Clearing the Decks

271

‘We Must Destroy Them Too!’

281

Hors d’Œuvre

295

The Warlord at the Western Front

309

The Big Decision

323

The Dilemma

335

Molotov

345

The ‘Barbarossa’ Directive

353

Let Europe Hold its Breath

363

Behind the Door

373

A Bitter Victory

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