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'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie
'Brilliant . . . History erased these women. Natalie is righting that wrong.…
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This book shows that although the public face of the trials was resolutely male, as were the indictments—no mention of rape for example—in fact, many women played significant roles preparing legal cases, testifying, documenting, and reporting the events.
The remarkable stories of sixteen women are told here, in well-marshalled chapters, both during and after the trials. Some were found, literally, in footnotes; others became famous in their own right; some faded into obscurity, their careers cut short by workplace sexism.
This is a fresh and compelling narrative, restoring some of the forgotten diversity to the trials and…
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