"In 1999 David Irving, a right-wing chronicler if Hitler's regime, sued Penguin Books, claiming he had been falsely labelled a Holocaust denier in book by Deborah Lipstadt. He maintained throughout the trial that there had been no gas chambers at Auschwitz, no international mass murder of Jews by the Nazis, and that the whole Holocaust story is exaggerated. The story of the trial is at the centre of this book. "--Jacket.