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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. HARDBACK original blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine pages: 245 profusely illus with text-figs. 140mm x 210mm (5.5 x 8.25") spine and hinges faded head tail and corners lightly bumped small split and crease at top hinge of front cover.

ISBN-13: 9781584772286; ISBN-10: 158477228X. Hankey, The Right Hon. Lord. Politics, Trials and Errors. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1950]. xiv, 150 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584772286. ISBN-10: 158477228X. Hardcover. New. $34.95 * Maurice Hankey [1877-1963], 1st Baron Hankey, became Secretary of the War Council in 1914 and Secretary of the War Cabinet in 1916. In the aftermath of WWI, in 1919, Hankey became First Cabinet Secretary. In 1939 Neville Chamberlain appointed him minister without portfolio and included him in his war cabinet. After World War II he emerged as a leading critic of the German and Japanese war crime trials. In this book (published in 1950) he offers his viewpoint on this and related matters. He takes the position that the Allies encouraged the Axis to take desperate measures to prolong the war, a policy that impeded the peace process. He goes on to argue that the Allies had no legal right to convict German and Japanese leaders of war crimes. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good No dust jacket as issued. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition Thus. "A controversial revisionist history arguing that Allied powers selectively prosecuted and covered up their own war crimes following World War II while creating convenient historical myths to justify the Nuremberg Trials". - Goodreads. Discusses unjust prosecution of Axis leaders, specific case studies, such as how Admiral Erich Raeder was given a life sentence for doing the same thing the British planned to do to Norway, Soviet Union propaganda, and Allied omissions, such as the bombing of Dresden or the Katyn massacre. xiv-240 p. Index. Black and white reproductions of photos. Reprint of the 1958 London first edition. Writing on top edge, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound example.; 8vo.…