Nuremberg

"A vivid reconstruction of the actions of the wartime allies and the Nazi elite at Nuremberg. Persico easily carries us into a deeper understanding of the trials."—New York Newsday

The Nuremberg trials remain, after nearly half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources—groundbreaking research in the papers of the Nuremberg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of prisoners, and accounts of the judges and prosecutors as they struggled through each day making compromises and steeling their convictions—Joseph Persico retells the story of Nuremberg, combining sweeping history with psychological insight. Here are brilliant, chilling portraits of the Nazi warlords and riveting descriptions of the tensions between law and vengeance, between East and West, of the friction already present in the early stages of the Cold War.Introduction
The Trial Cast
Abbreviations
Chapter I: Prelude to Judgment
Chapter II: The Prosecution Case
Chapter III: The Defense
Chapter IV: Judgment Day
Epilogue: The Verdict of Time
Appendix
Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Source Notes
IndexJoseph E. Persico was the author of Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage; Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918–World War I and Its Violent Climax; Piercing the Reich; and Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, which was made into a television docudrama. He also collaborated with Colin Powell on his autobiography, My American Journey. Persico died in 2014.