Nuremberg: Infamy On Trial - Softcover

Persico, Joseph E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014016622X ISBN 13: 9780140166224

Publisher: Penguin, 1995

Synopsis

The Nuremburg trials remain, after nearly half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources--ground-breaking research in the papers of the Nuremburg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutors as they struggled through each day making compromises and steeling their convictions--Joseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight. Here are brilliant, chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords and riveting descriptions of the tensions between law and vengeance, between East and West, of the friction already present in the early stages of the Cold War.

About this title

Product Description:

Nuremberg The Nuremberg trials took place from November 1945 to October 1946, and, after nearly 50 years, they remain an extraordinary precedent for judging international atrocities. This extraordinary recreation of the Third Reich's day of reckoning offers chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords, as it captures the trials in bold strokes and minute detail. 16 pages of photos.

About the Author:

Joseph E. Persico was the author of Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918-World War I and Its Violent Climax; Piercing the Reich; and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, which was made into a television docudrama. He also collaborated with Colin Powell on his autobiography, My American Journey. Persico died in 2014.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 014016622X
• ISBN 13: 9780140166224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 560