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A Passing Fury
A Passing Fury
Jan 10, 2025 7:34 AM

Author:A. T. Williams

A Passing Fury

A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017

After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol 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 endeavour, moving from the scripted trial of Goering, Hess and von Ribbentrop to the makeshift courtrooms where the SS officers, guards and executioners were prosecuted. It tells the story of the investigators, lawyers and perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done?

Reviews

[An] earnest, unsettling book… Williams is a thoughtful, lucid writer, with a lawyer’s appetite for detailA 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

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

The book [has] an attractively meditative quality.

—— Lawrence Douglas , Times Literary Supplement

Splendid book… Much more than a historical narrative and assessment… This is a superb book which offers no easy answers but invites the reader to join its author on a grim odyssey.

—— History Today

This is a fine book that does a great job of debunking one of the most enduring myths in history.

—— History of War

A fascinating read.

—— Lisa Pine , BBC History Magazine

Gripping and original.

—— Catholic Herald

***** Excellent Book.

—— Nicholas Goodman , Law Society's Gazette
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