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A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II
A. T. Williams
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Description for A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II
Paperback. A story of the extraordinary enterprise, the investigators, the lawyers and the perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done? It reassesses the value and flaws of the attempt to do justice in clear, engaging prose, bringing it to life for a new generation and demonstrating its contemporary relevance in responding to 'evil'. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBWQ; JWXK; LBBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 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. 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 ... Read more
A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017 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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Random House UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099593263
SKU
V9780099593263
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About A. T. Williams
A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.
Reviews for A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II
[An] earnest, unsettling book... Williams is a thoughtful, lucid writer, with a lawyer's appetite for detail... A Passing Fury is heartfelt, moving and often powerfully written.
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Williams... carries the reader along in his fluent and passionate prose
Richard J. Evans
Guardian
A haunting, sensitive and thoughtful ... Read more
Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Williams... carries the reader along in his fluent and passionate prose
Richard J. Evans
Guardian
A haunting, sensitive and thoughtful ... Read more