
- 384 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
On 18 October 1945, a day that would haunt him for ever, Airey Neave personally served the official indictments on the twenty-one top Nazis awaiting trial in Nuremberg – including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer. With his visit to their gloomy prison cells, the tragedy of an entire generation reached its final act.
The 29-year-old Neave, a wartime organiser of MI9 and the first Englishman to escape from Colditz Castle, had watched and listened over the months as the trials unfolded. Here, he describes the cowardice, calumny and in some cases bravado of the defendants – men he came to know and who in turn would become known as some of the most evil men in history.
A milestone in international law, the Nuremberg trials prompted uncomfortable but vital questions about how we prosecute the worst crimes ever committed – and who is entitled to deliver justice. Challenging, poignant and incisive, this definitive eyewitness account remains indispensable reading today.
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Table of contents
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Rebecca West
- Preface to the third edition by Baroness Airey of Abingdon
- Preface
- Part One: My Path to Nuremberg
- Part Two: The Day of the Indictment
- Part Three: To the Day of Judgment
- Appendix: Table of Verdicts and Sentences
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright