books about: nuremberg

books about: nuremberg

books:

Nuremberg

G. M. Gilbert

Da Capo Press, 1995

Read This; Then Watch "Nuremberg" (TNT dvd)
A great companion to the TNT Network movie "Nuremberg" of a few years ago (available on dvd). You'll come away with a good understanding of an important era of history.

A Train of Powder

Rebecca West

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2000

Questions the Assumptions We Make About Punishment
The headnote for A TRAIN OF POWDER: SIX REPORTS ON THE PROBLEM OF GUILT AND PUNISHMENT IN OUR TIME by Rebecca West is, "Our God is not out of breath, because he has blown one tempest, and swallowed a Navy: our God hath not burned out his eyes, because he has looked ...

Nuremberg : Infamy on Trial

Joseph E. Persico

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Nazis
This is one of the only nonfiction books I've ever read, and it was well worth the effort. Although nearly everyone will be quick to place Hitler at the top of their 'most evil men in history' list, the rest of the Nazi coterie are not so well known, and what we find ...

The Nuremberg Interviews

Leon Goldensohn

Vintage, 2005

Five Minutes Past the Thousand-Year Reich . . .
Learning that an America soldier, psychiatrist and MD had the opportunity to examine this Germanic rabble in 1946 was simply too intellectually enticing to ignore, and Robert Gellately's compilation of Dr. Leon Goldensohn's interviews with some major members of the ...

The Nuremberg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History

Norbert Ehrenfreund

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

The Judgment of Nuremberg
This important book is an eye-witness account of the Nuremberg trials written by then journalist and now Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund. It is the type of book all should read: the young to learn of the legacy of this, history's most important trial, and the old as a ...

The SS Totenkopf Ring: An Illustrated History from Munich to Nuremberg

Craig Gottlieb

Schiffer Pub Ltd, 2008

thought provoking
This book explains the ideology of the Nazi SS, the rituals and occult beliefs, and informs the reader on the significance of the death head rings. The book examines the deep research of the Nazi party and their commitment to global domination. Very well written with ...

Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

Vivien Spitz

Sentient Publications, 2005

Medical Demons
Way back in 1980, I had the opportunity to know a Polish American girl in Toledo,Ohio. She and her family are originally from Krakow, Poland. Her mother showed me the horrible scars on her deformed left leg and some presumably whip marks on her back. She told me she ...

The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History
Hilary Earl

Cambridge University Press, 2009

Based on extensive archival research, this book offers the first historical examination of the arrest, trial, and punishment of the leaders of the SS-Einsatzgruppen - the mobile security and killing units employed by the Nazis in their racial war on the eastern front. Sent to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, four units of Einsatzgruppen ...

Justice at Nuremberg

Robert E Conot

Basic Books, 1993

A very thorough account
For those who enjoyed TNT's Nuremburg movie and would like to develop a more complete understanding of the trial, "Justice at Nuremburg" is for you. Author Robert Conot does a lot more than just recount the trial of the leading Nazis. He gives a full portrayal of ...

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial, 1945-46: A Documentary History (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Michael R. Marrus

Bedford/St. Martin's, 1997

Grand Book
This a brillant book in how it shifts through the various documents in order to make the reader fully aware of what has happened. Marrus allows for a good mixture of both procecuting and defending testimony from the Trial and the various confrences during, before and ...

Witness to Nuremberg

Richard W. Sonnenfeldt

Arcade Publishing, 2008

An Important, Captivating Memoir
During 1945-46, Richard Sonnenfeldt, age 22, was the chief interpreter on the U.S. prosecution team at Nuremberg. In this role, he served U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor, and his interrogation team as the lead interpreter in the ...

Hitlers Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders: Why Hitler "Threw Victory Away

John K. Lattimer

Hippocrene Books, 1999

Impressions of top Nazis
This book was written by a US army doctor who was at the Nuremberg Trials and consequently came into contact with the Nazis there who awaited justice. His book proports to give away secrets of these infamous men but for the most part it only gives impressions that the ...

The Founding Myths of Modern Israel

Roger Garaudy

Inst for Historical Review, 2008

Don't be afraid to buy and read this book!
I am relatively new to the subject of the real history of Zionism, Israel, WWI and WW2 and the holocaust. I had, like so many, been aware that there were revisionist accounts but hesitated both out of skepticism--I couldn't believe that the mainstream narratives could ...

Kesselring's Last Battle: War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945-1960 (Modern War Studies)
Kerstin von Lingen

University Press of Kansas, 2009

In 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. He was held responsible for his troops having executed nearly 9,000 Italian citizens--women, children, elderly men--in retaliation for partisan attacks. His conviction, however, created a real dilemma for the United States and ...

Magdalena and Balthasar : An Intimate Portrait of Life in 16th Century Europe Revealed in the Letters of a ...

Yale University Press, 1989

A useful glimpse
Despite reviewer DP Mellon's prejudicial, intolerant and bias rant on Dr. Ozment's book, I found it to be a useful glimpse into the daily life of a 16th century couple. I am writing a historical novel set during these times, and such personalized, intimate and first ...