Original sentence: Though the author and publisher were American, Irving launched his suit in the United Kingdom, where the burden of proof is on the defendant, and not, as in most Western jurisdictions, on the plaintiff
Edited sentence: ... if we mean by historian someone who is concerned to discover the truth about the past, and to give as accurate a representation of it as possible, then Irving is not a historian.All of them are completely worthless as history, because Irving cannot be trusted anywhere, in any of them, to give a reliable account of what he is talking or writing about.Evans' final assessment of Irving's work was both blistering, and damning:.Not one of [Irving's] books, speeches or articles, not one paragraph, not one sentence in any of them, can be taken on trust as an accurate representation of its historical subject.Though the author and publisher were American, Irving launched his suit in the United Kingdom, where the burden of proof in libel cases is on the defendant, and not, as in most Western jurisdictions, on the plaintiff