Nuremberg
The Reckoning

By adding a fictional prisoner to the cadre of Nazis tried at Nuremberg and linking him to a young American Lieutenant of American/German/Jewish descent, Buckley manages to provide a fairly comprehensive overview of not only what took place at Nuremberg but an informative glimpse into some of the et......more

I chose this audiobook because I knew next to nothing about Nuremberg, and I hoped to garner vocabulary words from Buckley. What I did not expect was a fictionalized account. The narrative was compelling; my interest never flagged.......more

It was ok, but why did the author have to invent a war criminal who never existed who was in charge of a death camp that never existed and then throw both into the Nuremgberg trial. I thought he could have used one of the real war criminals as a foil in the book.......more

A bit of a departure from some of his novels, which posit an account of what might have been the case "behind the scenes" of espionage and diplomacy, this book tells the story of one family (part Jewish) caught up in Germany's political turmoil leading up to WWII. And of one family member's involvem......more