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Book SynopsisA Daily Telegraph Book of the YearAny trial is an act of theatre.
After the horror of the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of the ‘free world’s’ choice 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 controlled scheme of vengeance. Moving from the scripted trial of Göring, Hess and von Ribbentrop, to the makeshift courtrooms where ‘minor’ war criminals (the psychotic SS officers, the brutal guards, the executioners) were prosecuted,
A Passing Fury tells the story of the extraordinary enterprise, the investigators, the lawyers and the perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done?
A Passing Fury reassesses the value and flaws of the attempt to d
Trade Review[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 study -- Nigel Jones * Daily Telegraph *
Absorbing... Williams skilfully reveals a chaotic world in which war crimes investigation teams, generally lacking even the most basic resources, were left to do their best in extremely trying circumstances * Scotsman *
Williams has put together
an original polemic against our assumptions about these trials, including those at Nuremberg. -- David Herman * New Statesman *
