Prosecutor

About the book

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD: BIOGRAPHY
THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING, COSTA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE VOLUNTEER

'FIVE STARS ... Magnificent' Telegraph
'Compulsively readable' Financial Times
'Gripping and timely' The Times
'Crackingly told' Philippe Sands
'A kind of masterclass' Sebastian Junger

The true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after WWII to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.

At the end of the Nuremberg trial in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies...