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, Dodd, Christopher J., 1944-. Letters from Nuremberg. My father's narrative of a quest for justice. By Christopher Dodd with Lary Bloom. New York : Crown Publishing, 2007, stated First Edition, viii, 373pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear, very good blue hardcover with minor indentation on front cover. The Nuremberg trials demonstrated the resolve of the Allied victors of the Second World War to uphold the principles of dispassionate justice and the rule of law even when cries of vengeance threatened to carry the day. Thomas J. Dodd served as a staff lawyer in this unprecedented trial for crimes against humanity. Thanks to his agile legal mind and especially to his skills at interrogating the defendants, he quickly rose to become the number two prosecutor in the U.S. contingent. Over the course of 15 months, Dodd described his efforts and his vivid impressions of the proceedings in nightly letters to his wife, Grace. Unexamined for decades, these letters now remind us of the inspiration that good people across the world have long taken from that courtroom - and that fear and retribution are not the only bases for confrontation. (Jacket text). ISBN 9780307381163.