Sebastian, a young German-American interpreter and interrogator, witnesses the proceedings at Nuremberg's Palace of Justice in 1945 and finds he must come to terms with his family's own legacy and national identity. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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A World War II novel set mainly in Germany culminating in the Nuremburg trials.Nuremberg's Palace of Justice, 1945: the scene of a trial without precedent in history, a trial that continues to haunt the modern world. Leading the reader into the Palace is Sebastian, a young German-American whose fate is to be intimately involved with the lives and deaths of others: the father who disappeared mysteriously, the ancestors whose stories become vitally relevant, and some of the towering figures of twentieth-century legal history, including Justice Robert Jackson, Albert Speer, Hermann Goering, and the dark, untried shadow of Adolf Hitler. In a gripping account of warmakers who must face the consequences of their actions,Nuremberg: The Reckoning flows through Warsaw, Berlin, Lodz, Munich, Hamburg, and finally Nuremberg, as Sebastian, an interpreter-interrogator, comes to terms with his family legacy and his national identity. With his customary authority and audacity, William F. Buckley Jr. has taken a pivotal moment in history and shaped it into absorbing and original fiction. The result is a riveting novel of insight and deep understanding exploring the characters and issues that made history.Here Buckley creates a thriller which involves the scene and setting he is best at: war, soldiers, World War II, treachery, betrayal, and victory over the forces of evil.
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