The Scourge Of The Swastika: A Short History Of Nazi War Crimes
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 15th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, with tanning to edges; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
The Scourge of the Swastika stands as one of the most unflinching and meticulously documented accounts of Nazi atrocities committed during the Second World War. Lord Russell of Liverpool — a distinguished British lawyer and Judge Advocate General — draws directly from the evidence presented at the Nuremberg Trials and other war crimes tribunals to chronicle the systematic murder, torture, and enslavement perpetrated by the Third Reich across occupied Europe. The book details the organised brutality of the SS, the horrors of the concentration camps, the murder of prisoners of war, and the deliberate starvation of civilian populations, presenting the evidence with the precision of a legal mind and the moral conviction of a humanist. Written in a measured, authoritative prose that never sensationalises its devastating subject matter, the work provoked enormous controversy upon publication — the British government initially attempted to suppress it — yet it went on to become an international bestseller, translated into numerous languages. Lord Russell argues that the world must confront the full, documented truth of these crimes, not to dwell in grief, but to ensure such systematic evil is never permitted to rise again. Decades after its first publication, the question it poses to the conscience of civilisation remains as urgent as ever.
Author: Lord Russell Of Liverpool
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Cassell
Genre: WW2
Edition: 15th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, with tanning to edges; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear.
The Scourge of the Swastika stands as one of the most unflinching and meticulously documented accounts of Nazi atrocities committed during the Second World War. Lord Russell of Liverpool — a distinguished British lawyer and Judge Advocate General — draws directly from the evidence presented at the Nuremberg Trials and other war crimes tribunals to chronicle the systematic murder, torture, and enslavement perpetrated by the Third Reich across occupied Europe. The book details the organised brutality of the SS, the horrors of the concentration camps, the murder of prisoners of war, and the deliberate starvation of civilian populations, presenting the evidence with the precision of a legal mind and the moral conviction of a humanist. Written in a measured, authoritative prose that never sensationalises its devastating subject matter, the work provoked enormous controversy upon publication — the British government initially attempted to suppress it — yet it went on to become an international bestseller, translated into numerous languages. Lord Russell argues that the world must confront the full, documented truth of these crimes, not to dwell in grief, but to ensure such systematic evil is never permitted to rise again. Decades after its first publication, the question it poses to the conscience of civilisation remains as urgent as ever.