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A Passing Fury
eBook - Searching for Justice at the End of World War II
ISBN/EAN: 9781448191765
Umbreit-Nr.: 9410579
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 496 S., 5.02 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 05.05.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
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Format: EPUB
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- Zusatztext
- <p><b>A<i>Daily Telegraph</i>Book of the Year</b> <b>Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017</b> <b></b> After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a fragment of retribution as, with their Allies, the British embarked on the largest programme of war crimes investigations and trials in history.</p><p>This book exposes the deeper truth of this endeavour, moving from the scripted trial of Goering, Hess and von Ribbentrop to the makeshift courtrooms where the SS officers, guards and executioners were prosecuted. It tells the story of the investigators, lawyers and perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done?</p>
- Kurztext
- A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearShortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a fragment of retribution as, with their Allies, the British embarked on the largest programme of war crimes investigations and trials in history.This book exposes the deeper truth of this endeavour, moving from the scripted trial of Goering, Hess and von Ribbentrop to the makeshift courtrooms where the SS officers, guards and executioners were prosecuted. It tells the story of the investigators, lawyers and perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done?
- Autorenportrait
- A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book<i>A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa.</i>He lives in Warwickshire.