"Based on extensive and impressive research in multiple archival sources, this volume adds the Soviet voice to the story of the Nuremberg trials. This massive, readable work is a fantastic contribution to the field. Highly recommended. General readers through faculty; professionals." -- W. B. Whisenhunt, College of DuPage, CHOICE
"The author combines the careers of journalist and academic. This results in a work written with an engaging style and a strong sense of dogged impartiality. It is not surprising that this book has been referred to as the 'journalists' bible'." -- Kevin McVeigh, Law Society Gazette
"Splendid...In brisk and lucid prose, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg recounts the extraordinary jockeying, collaboration, rivalry, and mistrust among the four prosecuting powers, from the trial's opening in November 1945 to the final verdicts and sentencing ten months later. It is one of the few genuinely international studies of the trial, revealing new and occasionally unpredictable fault lines on the eve of the political realignments imposed by the cold war." -- Benjamin Nathans, New York Review of Books
"It is this version of history that Francine Hirsch confronts in her absorbing and readable new book. Fifteen years in preparation, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg draws on groundbreaking research in Moscow archives to illuminate the Soviet dimension of an episode that was both "the last hurrah" of wartime Allied cooperation and "an early front of the Cold War" ... the rich detail is fascinating and the overall thesis compelling ... an elegant and important piece of scholarship which adds a significant new perspective to the history of the International Military Tribunal." -- David Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
"This truly ground-breaking book should be read by every lawyer with an interest, general or otherwise, in the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in particular. Author Francine Hirsch, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, deserves high praise as the first scholar to publish a comprehensive study of the role played by the Soviets in the prosecution of Nazi leaders at the IMT ... By looking at Soviet participation in the war crimes prosecution, Hirsch now gives a new and valuable perspective on what happened at Nuremberg in 1945 and 1946. Or, as she puts it, her book "presents a new history...by restoring a central and missing piece: the role of the Soviet Union." ... Her superlative history of the Soviet Union's role at the IMT deserves to reach the widest possible audience." -- Fred L. Borch III, The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, The Army Lawyer
"Military historians will want to read this excellent book for at least two reasons. First, it is a new history of the Nuremberg trials because it restores "a central and missing piece: the role of the Soviet Union". Second, Hirsch's book shows how the Nuremberg war crimes trial was an early battle in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union—a foreshadowing of the superpower competition that would last for years." -- Fred L. Borch, Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, Virginia, The Journal of Military History
"Fifteen years in the making, drawing extensively on Soviet archives, Francine Hirsch's wonderful book freshly illuminates the paradoxical Soviet impact on the trial of Nazi criminals as well as the inner workings of the Kremlin as it navigated the onset of the Cold War." -- William Taubman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and His Era and Gorbachev: His Life and Times
"Meticulous and original, Francine Hirsch's book is also deeply necessary. We cannot understand what happened at Nuremberg in the round without the Soviet angle, and that is what Hirsch provides in this unique and fascinating work." -- Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
"With an unmatched command of the sources and masterful prose, Francine Hirsch offers a comprehensive and revelatory new history of the International Military Tribunal, demonstrating both the contributions of the Soviets to international law as well as the contradictions based on their own wartime crimes. This gripping and compelling book is a landmark study that finally tells the whole story of the first Nuremberg Trial." -- Lynne Viola, author of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine
"Masterly... Richly detailed and well-written, this important new vantage point on Nuremberg will appeal strongly to history buffs."--Kirkus
"Indeed, Hirsch brilliantly accomplishes her central aim: 'putting the Soviet Union back into the history of Nuremberg trials.' In so doing, the book offers a valuable new addition to the Nuremberg canon, filling a gap in the literature with new research, an engaging narrative style, and delightful details..."--Beth Van Schaack, War on the Rocks
"This well-researched book is an important contribution to the history of the Cold War, and should become the standard account of the International Military Tribunal, with its inclusion of the Soviet perspective." --Library Journal
A "pathbreaking book" --Foreign Affairs
"A fascinating deep-dive into the little-explored Soviet role at the Nuremberg trials." --World War II Magazine
"...An elegant and important piece of scholarship which adds a significant new perspective to the history of the Internaitonal Military Tribunal." -- Times Literary Supplement
