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Nuremburg Booklist

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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Fiction

• Nuremberg: The Reckoning
  Author: Buckley, William F.
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 0151006792 Date: 2002
  Kirkus Library Journal
  With his customary authority and audacity, Buckley has taken a pivotal moment in history and shaped it into absorbing and original fiction. The result is a riveting novel of insight and deep understanding exploring the characters and issues that made history.
  Suggested Reading: Legal Stars
  Updated 6/7/02
• Winter
  Author: Deighton, Len
  Publisher: Knopf $ 19.95 ISBN: 039455177x Date: 1988
  Deighton's most ambitious and enthralling novel yet takes us into the tumult of the Winter family--and the conflict between deeply attached brothers Peter and Paul. Charming Paul is drawn early and forever into the Nazi orbit, while intellectual Peter is repelled by Nazism, dedicated to the principles of German democracy.
  Updated 10.24.05

Nonfiction

• The Nuremberg Interviews
  Author: Goldensohn, Leon
  Publisher: Knopf $ 35 ISBN: 037541469x Date: 2004
  Kirkus LJ
  During the Nuremberg trials, Dr. Leon Goldensohn-a psychiatrist for the U.S. Army-monitored the mental health of two dozen German leaders charged with carrying out genocide. These recorded conversations have gone largely unexamined for more than fifty years, until Robert Gellately-one of the premier historians of Nazi Germany-made them available to the public in this remarkable collection. Here are interviews with the likes of Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop-the highest ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails. Here too are interviews with lesser-known officials essential to the inner workings of the Third Reich. Candid and often shockingly truthful, The Nuremberg Interviews is a profound addition to our understanding of the Nazi mind and mission. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 10.25.05
• Nuremberg: Infmay on Trial
  Author: Persico, Joseph E.
  Publisher: Viking $ 25.95 ISBN: 0670842761 Date: 1994
  PW
  In an extraordinary re-creation of the Third Reich's day of reckoning, Persico recaptures the trial in bold strokes and minute detail. He enters the minds of all the key actors via groundbreaking research that includes the private papers of the Nuremburg prison psychiatrist and commandant, the letters and journals of the prisoners, and the accounts of the day-to-day struggles, compromises, and convictions among the prosecutors and judges.
  Updated 10.24.05
• The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir
  Author: Taylor, Telford
  Publisher: Knopf $ 35 ISBN: 0394583558 Date: 1992
  PW
  A long-awaited memoir of the Nuremberg war crimes trials by one of its key participants. In 1945 Telford Taylor joined the prosecution staff and eventually became chief counsel of the international tribunal established to try top-echelon Nazis. Telford provides an engrossing eyewitness account of one of the most significant events of our century.
  Updated 10.24.05