Peter Mayer - Why I published ’The War Between the Generals’ by David Irving (86/99)

To listen to more of Peter Mayer’s stories, go to the playlist: British-born Peter Mayer (1936-2018) was an independent American publisher who, as head of the New York-based Avon Books, successfully introduced the trade paperback to the mass market. From 1978 to 1996, he was CEO of Penguin Books. [Listener: Christopher Sykes; date recorded: September 2014-January 2015] TRANSCRIPT: Some Jewish group - or Jewish individual, I don’t know - contacted Jim and said, Jim, did you know, or Mr Rose, did you know, that Penguin is about to publish David Irving? Well, either Jim knew or found out, but, in any case, I don’t think it was a secret. And the book that David Irving was writing for, I believe, Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, the hardcover imprint of Penguin, maybe even for Peter Carson who was its head, and also part of the mystery… history establishment at Penguin, was a book called ’Hitler’s Generals’ [