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Any trial is an act of theater. After the horror of World War II, 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 program 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? This book 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."
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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. A Passing Fury was chosen as a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
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"‘The death of one man is a tragedy,’ Josef Stalin is said to have mused. ‘The deaths of a million is a statistic.’ A. T. Williams’s prize winning debut, A Very British Killing, was a passionately written investigation into the death of a single man – Baha Mousa, an innocent Iraqi hotel receptionist killed by British soldiers in Basra in 2003. This, his second book, is a study in myriad deaths – the Nazi perpetration of genocide – and a prolonged meditation on Stalin’s idea that the human mind cannot comprehend mass murder... His theme is the imperfect efforts made by the Allied military authorities...to bring the criminals responsible for these horrors to justice." —Nigel Jones, Daily Telegraph
"[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 has put together an original polemic against our assumptions about these trials, including those at Nuremberg." —David Herman, New Statesman
"Williams is a first-rate storyteller who has a gift for bringing the past to life in an accessible and compelling way." —Hester Vaizey, Times Higher Education
"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
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- PublisherVintage UK
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 0099593262
- ISBN 13 9780099593263
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages272
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