Nuremberg: Evil on Trial - Hardcover

Owen, James

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ISBN 10: 0755315448 ISBN 13: 9780755315444

Publisher: Headline Review, 2006

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The end of the Second World War presented the Allies - Britain, France, Russia and the United States - with a very large and contentious problem. What to do with the surviving members of a regime that had brought death and misery to millions? Their solution - to place them on trial - was both novel and historic, and has influenced principles of justice now being applied in Yugoslav and Rwandan war crimes cases, as well as in Saddam Hussein's courtroom.

Nuremberg: Evil on Trial relates its dramatic events through a judicious selection of the actual words spoken by the prosecutors, the judges, and the defendants, including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess, and offers authentic insight into the workings of the Nazi state, the mind-set of its rulers, and the momentous decisions they made. This penetrating account raises issues as vital now as they were sixty years ago.

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Review:

'Lucidly written and ingeniously argued' (SUNDAY TIMES on A SERPENT IN EDEN)

'A fascinating book written with exemplary thoroughness' (William Boyd, DAILY TELEGRAPH, on A SERPENT IN EDEN)

'Extremely enjoyable and deeply engrossing' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH on A SERPENT IN EDEN)

'An extraordinary anthology' (SUNDAY TIMES on THE VOICE OF WAR)

Book Description:

Between November 1945 and October 1946, 21 Nazi leaders took the stand in Nuremberg. They had committed atrocities that had appalled the world and, at an unprecedented international tribunal, the world was determined to see justice done. Nuremberg: Evil on Trial is the inside view of 'the greatest trial in history'.

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