Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor - Rilegato

Greene, Joshua M.

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ISBN 10: 0767908791 ISBN 13: 9780767908795

Casa editrice: Broadway Books, 2003

Riassunto

A fascinating look inside the Nuremberg trials offers a close-up portrait of American prosecutor William Denson, a U.S. Army attorney assigned to prosecute Nazi war criminals who won more than 177 convictions and who risked his Army career to prevent the clandestine reversal of Nazi sentences thanks to the Soviet threat.

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Recensione:

"A new American hero--William Denson--bursts forward in the riveting pages of Justice at Dachau. An Alabama human rights lawyer, Denson was sent to Europe by the U.S. Army to prosecute Nazi butchers feigning innocence in the bloody aftermath of the Second World War. Brilliantly written and fastidiously researched, Joshua M. Greene’s narrative builds chapter by chapter in dramatic Hollywood-like fashion. Each war criminal Denson convicts brings a cheer to the heart. This is historical storytelling at its finest.”
-Douglas Brinkley, Director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans and co-editor of Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today


"Justice at Dachau is a mesmerizing account of one of history's most infamous periods. Joshua Greene takes the reader back in time by weaving together a riveting narrative of the trial and its central figure, Judge Advocate William Denson, a true hero and humanitarian. This book is destined to be a classic among Holocaust histories."
-Patrick O'Donnell, author of Beyond Valor and Into the Rising Sun

L'autore:

Joshua M. Greene received exclusive access to Denson’s personal archives, which included trial transcripts, newspaper clips, and a trove of photographs and letters. Using these, Greene has reconstructed the Dachau trials with the immediacy and excitement of a legal thriller. Justice at Dachau resurrects an American hero, a real-life Atticus Finch, and shines a light on a part of World War II that established precedents still used today to bring war criminals to justice.

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• Editore: Broadway Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0767908791
• ISBN 13: 9780767908795
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400