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Train of Powder
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
- Publish Date: Aug 21st, 2000
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 1.25lb
- EAN: 9781566633192
- Categories: • Legal History• General
About the Author
West, Rebecca: - Critic, journalist, novelist and feminist Rebecca West (1892-1983) is known for her studies of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremburg, for which President Harry Truman called her "the world's best reporter." In 1959, West was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of an honorary knighthood.
Praise for this book
An astonishing book...Elegant narratives with lucid prose.
A beautiful example of journalism transformed into great art.
Brilliant and thought-provoking.
West is a powerful and deadly serious writer, aware that our age has a beast in view...this belongs to the art of the really superb journalist.
Indisputably the world's Number 1 woman writer.