Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
By Timothy Sandefur
London: Picador, 2023
892 pp. $29.77 (paperback)
After Germany’s defeat in May 1945, leaders of the victorious Allies convened a trial in Nuremberg to prosecute Nazi leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity. That trial lasted eleven months, and although prosecutors blundered in some ways—most infamously, bungling Hermann Göring’s cross-examinati…
