Autorentext

Rebecca West (1892-1983) was an English author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer whose books include her masterful two-volume opus on the history and culture of Yugoslavia, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, and A Train of Powder, which gathers her coverage for The New Yorker of the Nuremberg trials.

Klappentext

Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. "Astonishing."-Francine Prose.