Destruction of Dresden by David Irving, First Edition (14 results)

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 255 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair plus dust jacket. Spine is black with tan print. Dust jacket has mild edge wear, peripheral toning, light shelf wear/soiling. Price unclipped: "$4.95". Boards in grey cloth. Light wear to spine caps and corners, lightly cocked spine. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece and plates (photographs). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column P. 1393604. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. First edition THUS. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. NAP. "Expanded, New Edition". 315p. Maps. Photos. Fine/Fine copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New York: Ballantine Books, February 1965. First Ballantine edition, first printing. Softcover. Mass market paperback in original illustrated wraps. Just about fine, with light age toning to edges. A tight, clean copy with no spine creases and no internal marks. Octavo (4.25 x 7 inches), 287 pages. Illustrated with photographs. Originally published in the United Kingdom in 1963, "The Destruction of Dresden" was one of the first books to cast the Allied bombing of Dresden as a deliberate atrocity, portraying it as the deadliest single act of aerial warfare in human history. British author Irving drew on wartime documents, survivor testimonies, and postwar records to argue that the bombing was militarily unnecessary and aimed at civilian terror. This 1965 American edition brought Irving's revisionist narrative to a wide U.S. readership, where it found traction amid Cold War cynicism. Later scholarly reassessments sharply challenged Irving's casualty figures and historical methods, especially in light of his documented Holocaust denial and falsification of sources. Nonetheless, this early edition remains a widely cited and controversial artifact in the literature on strategic bombing and historical propaganda.

1964 First U.S. edition hardback with dust wrapper. Introduction By Ira C. Eaker. The book is bound in decorated grey cloth with the titles blocked in grey on the spine. The book measures 9½" x 6½", it has 255 pages and is very well illustrated with b/w photographs, maps and diagrams. There are 2 neat small repairs to the bottom edge of the wrapper, otherwise, the dust wrapper, binding and contents are in excellent condition. VG+/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st. 1st ed. 255p. Photos. Intro by Ira Eaker. Air raid of February 1945. Black and white jacket. Jacket priced. Jacket sunned and taped on the inside. Near Fine/Fair copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. 1995 First Edition Hardcover As New/As New Veritas Publishing Co/Focal Point, Pubs, Australia, 1995, 1st Revised and Expanded Edition; AS NEW condition with an AS NEW dust jacket; 315 pages; Index; illustrated; David Irving, World War 2.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st ed. 255p. Photos. Intro by Ira Eaker. Air raid of February 1945. Black and white jacket. Jacket priced. In mylar. Fine/Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 255, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Sources. Index. The dust jacket has substantial soiling, wear, tears, and small chips. Introduction by Lt. General Ira C. Eaker, USAF (Ret.). Eaker was the first U. S. Army Air Corps Bomber Commander in Europe and rose to command the Eighth Air Force from October 1942 to January 1944. Foreword by Air Marshal Sir Robert Saundby. This is an early work, increasingly scarce, by an author who has since become a controversial figure in terms of the Holocaust and the Second World War in general. Good in good dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. The Destruction of Dresden is a 1963 book by British author, in which he describes the February 1945 Allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. The book, having long being praised and held in high esteem, became an international bestseller during the 1960s debate about the morality of the World War II area bombing of the civilian population of Nazi Germany. Derived from a Kirkus review: This account, which is handled with understatement, is nearly as decimating as its subject which is horror- fleshly horror and the genocide which follows in the wake of war. Dresden was bombed as a terroristic action and 135,000 people died. The author claims this as the single most inhumane act of the war, and only the extermination of the Jews was more dreadful quantitatively. For those who will not flinch from the facts presented here- it is an important record, both as a reminder of the past and a warning for the future. David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English author who has written on the military and political history of World War II, especially Nazi Germany. Irving's works include The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler's War (1977), Churchill's War (1987) and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996). He was recognized for his knowledge of Nazi Germany and his ability to unearth new historical documents, which he held closely but stated were fully supportive of his conclusions. His 1964 book The Mare's Nest about Germany's V-weapons campaign of 1944-45 was praised for its deep research. After serving in 1959 as editor of the University of London Carnival Committee's journal, Irving left for West Germany, where he worked as a steelworker in a Thyssen AG steel works in the Ruhr area and learned the German language. He then moved to Spain, where he worked as a clerk at an air base. By 1962, Irving was engaged to write a series of 37 articles on the Allied bombing campaign, Und Deutschlands Städte starben nicht ("And Germany's Cities Did Not Die"), for the German boulevard journal Neue Illustrierte. These were the basis for his first book, The Destruction of Dresden (1963), in which he examined the Allied bombing of Dresden in February 1945. By the 1960s, a debate about the morality of the carpet bombing of German cities and civilian population had already begun, especially in the United Kingdom. There was consequently considerable interest in Irving's book, which was illustrated with graphic pictures, and it became an international bestseller. In the first edition, Irving's estimates for deaths in Dresden were between 100,000 and 250,000 - notably higher than most previously published figures. These figures became widely accepted in many standard reference works. First U. S. Edition [stated], presumed first printing.

First edition of controversial author's first book, imperial octavo, black boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 255pp, illus, VG (moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, lighter tanning elsewhere) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & scuffing).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. This is a mass market paperback. The book has browning wear along the edges of the inside cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Good. 1st Printing. Dark gray titles on pale gray cloth. 255pp. Dust jacket is edgeworn but presentable within new Brodart sleeve. Size: Large Octavo.

1st Edition. 255 pages. Near fine hardback covers in a near fine pictorial dust jacket . Internally fine. Black and white ills.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition and First Published in the United States, February 1964. Grey cloth boards, Near fine first edition in very good wrapper. Light grey full cloth boards, light shelf wear, moderate cloth roal to upper 1". Cover design features artistic depiction of explosive material. Spine features serious titles with Dresden in old German font. Pages near fine, clean. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Original matte pictorial wrapper, light shelf wear, rub; unclipped 4.95, protected in new clear sleeve. Date code 0264 to front flap. Detailed index. Also includes ephemeral 1980's print of major news publication article on the perspective of an apology from the England and America. 255 pages. Insured post. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.