Professor Schabas' book on the thwarted attempt to bring Kaiser Wilhelm II before an international court after the Great War on charges of war crimes, combines erudition and a fast-pace narrative that one rarely finds in scholarly works of this nature. Schabas has a masterful grip on the extensive sources that underpin this study. Throughout the book there are insights and comparisons to the post-1945 period that will delight not just the lay reader interested in international criminal history, but also the specialist historian interested in the twists and turns of the legal arguments of the key players involved in war crimes trials. This is a book all can read and profit by. Anthony McElligott, author of Weimar Germany (Oxford Short History of Germany) Skryť popis