The Trial of the Germans: An Account of the Twenty-Two Defendants Before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1966. First edition, first printing (stated). 636 pages, with 32 pages of photographic plates and a full bibliography. Blue cloth, red spine label lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. Unclipped dust jacket ($12.50) designed by Lawrence Ratzkin, with an author photo on the rear flap. Dedicated “To the Men and Women of the 20th of July,” the conspirators of the 1944 plot against Hitler. From the library of L. John Wood (1930–2026), Indianapolis attorney, chairman of the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission (1970–76), longtime Indiana ACLU board member and national ACLU board member (1968–73), and counsel to the Indianapolis Public Schools board during the remedy phase of the city’s federal desegregation case. It carries his characteristic reading note on the rear free endpaper: “1 December 1966,” the date he finished the book, here followed by his code “HBC.” Book clean and tight, with light rubbing at the spine ends. Jacket bright, with mild edge wear, and a small tear to head of spine. Davidson (1902–2002), a longtime Yale University Press editor, spent seven years in archives in Germany, Israel, Britain, and the United States, and interviewed defense lawyers, former officials, and camp survivors. He tells the story of the trial through a biographical study of each of the twenty-two defendants, from Göring and Speer to Streicher and the absent Bormann. It remains one of the standard one-volume accounts of the trial.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #UB-51694
Price: $40.00