Notes

6. Irving, Hitler's War, p. xvi. Irving used the same phrase in The War Path (London 1987), p. ix. He claimed that describing the "events from behind the Führer's desk" led him to adopt a previously untried technique -- cf. D.C. Watt's harsh criticism of The War Path, Daily Telegraph, 20 June 1978 and J.P. Taylor's relatively favorable criticism, Observer, 18 June, 1978.