High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! David John Cawdell Irving (born 24 March 1938) is an English writer, best known for his denial of the Holocaust, who specialises in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany. He is the author of 30 books on the subject, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitler`s War (1977), Uprising! (1981), Churchill`s War (1987), and Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich (1996).