There is no such thing a coincidence, and the day after my post on Denial there was a long interview with Richard J Evans in The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/14/richard-evans-interview-holocaust-denial-film
It was interesting to see that focus of the film had to be on Lipstadt to make it work as a drama, but it was the three years of detailed work that Evans and his team carried out made it clear to Lipstadt's team that they had probably won the case before it started: what remained to be decided was the scale of the victory.
I also read that Richard Evans had locked horns in exchanges with Michael Gove over the teaching of history in schools. I've read his Third Reich Trilogy and am currently reading The Pursuit of Power, his new history of Europe in the 19th century: all have been excellent and I will certainly read more of his work.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/14/richard-evans-interview-holocaust-denial-film
It was interesting to see that focus of the film had to be on Lipstadt to make it work as a drama, but it was the three years of detailed work that Evans and his team carried out made it clear to Lipstadt's team that they had probably won the case before it started: what remained to be decided was the scale of the victory.
I also read that Richard Evans had locked horns in exchanges with Michael Gove over the teaching of history in schools. I've read his Third Reich Trilogy and am currently reading The Pursuit of Power, his new history of Europe in the 19th century: all have been excellent and I will certainly read more of his work.
