A searing story . . . both meticulous military history and a deeply moving testimony to the extraordinary personal bravery of individual soldiers

Sebag-Montefiore tells [the story] with gusto, a remarkable attention to detail and an inexhaustible appetite for tracking down the evidence

Richard Overy is writing at the height of his powers... The result is often startling, never less than fascinating

A thought provoking reappraisal of the war - deeply researched, complex and yet beautifully lucid

We cannot know what Anne Darquier would have thought of Callil's book, but my guess is that she would have been as moved, astonished and impressed as any other reader

Extraordinary...touching... a masterpiece of lacerating satire

In providing such a detailed picture of one of the functionaries of the Nazi empire, Callil has brilliantly shown how such a system could encourage and promote nonentities who were prepared to mouth the necessary phrases, and to ignore the call of humanity

Bad Faith represents eight years of astonishing research...a remarkable book

A meticulous work of scholarship... [an] astonishing biography

Impeccably researched, Bad Faith is a work of great power and originality; Callil is to be congratulated on her achieivement