Nuremberg: Evil on Trial

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Headline Review, 2006 - 376 pages
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 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.

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About the author (2006)

James Owen was born in London in 1969. He studied Modern History at Oxford University. His previous books are A Serpent in Eden (Little, Brown, 2005) - shortlisted for the 2005 CWA Gold Dagger (non-fiction), and The Voice of War: The Second World War Told By Those Who Fought It, with Guy Walters (Viking, 2004). He writes regularly for The Times, the Telegraphand the Financial Times.

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