This book deals with those who attempt to put an academic face on Holocaust denial. The main thrust of the book is that, while everyone is entitled to his or her own view, a view that goes against established historical facts does not constitute "the other side of the story."

An allegory as explanation: those who try to mount a scientific defense that the tooth fairy exists are not engaging in an effort to uncover "the other side of the story." One is entitled to believe that said fairy exists, but the evidence strongly suggests (for lack of a better term) otherwise.

The one problem I have with the book is the attention Lipstadt draws to Noam Chomsky's assertion that, from a political point of view, it is possible for Holocaust figures to have been exaggerated to serve the end of establishing a secure Israeli state. His summary of this possibility is that to deny otherwise is to suggest that the Israeli state is the first state in history not to have lied to promote its own aims. I believe the fact that most states deceive and lie at some point in their history was the more important point for Chomsky, and not the possibility of inflated Holocaust figures.

That aside, the book is a good overview of revisionist history and the solid facts that show Holocaust denial to be a racist fantasy.