A Finalist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize
Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize
A Best Book of the Year in The Economist, Prospect, The Telegraph, TLS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Foreign Affairs
'Magisterial' - Max Hastings, The Sunday Times
'Monumental' - Rana Mitter, Times Literary Supplement
A landmark history of the postwar trials of Japan's leaders as war criminals, and their impact on the modern history of Asia and the world.
'Every so often, a new work emerges of such immense scholarship and weight that it really does add a significant difference to our understanding of the Second World War and its consequences. Judgement at Tokyo is a monumental work in both scale and detail' - James Holland, The Sunday Telegraph
'A work of singular importance . . . balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting' - Philippe Sands, author of East-West Street
In the aftermath of World War II, the victorious Allied powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. The Tokyo trial - the largely overlooked counterpart to Nuremberg - was an opportunity both to render judgment on the Allies' vanquished foes and to create a legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of aggressive war. For the Japanese leaders on trial, it was their chance to argue that their war had been waged to liberate Asia from Western imperialism and that the court was no more than victors' justice.
Judgement at Tokyo is a magnificent, riveting story of wartime action, dramatic courtroom battles, and the epic formative years of postwar Asia.
'A comprehensive, landmark and riveting book' - The Washington Post, 'The 10 Best Books of 2023'
'Breathtakingly ambitious and unlikely to be bettered as a portrait of the trials and their place in postwar global history' - History Today
Rezensionen / Stimmen
This important book . . . Magisterial -- Max Hastings, <i>The Sunday Times</i> Every so often, a new work emerges of such immense scholarship and weight that it really does add a significant difference to our understanding of the Second World War and its consequences. Judgement in Tokyo is one such, a monumental work in both scale and detail, beautifully constructed and written, leaving the reader not only moved but disturbed as well. -- James Holland, <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i> With impeccable scholarship and lucid writing, this is a magnificent book on an aspect of Asian history that has far-reaching repercussions today -- The Judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction A work of singular importance - balanced, original, human, accessible, and riveting. It is of huge relevance to our times. -- Philippe Sands, author of <i>East-West Street</i> Magisterial . . . A well-crafted, warts-and-all account from which almost no one emerges unscathed. * Financial Times * A meticulously researched and authoritative account -- <i>The Economist</i>, 'The Best Books of 2023' Bass has written a massively long and detailed book, always lively and judgmental. He brings out not only the legal arguments, but the colour of the great tribunal itself. * Observer * This magisterial account - long but never sprawling; thick with detail yet always engrossing . . . This is a breathtakingly ambitious and well-executed piece of history, unlikely to be bettered as a portrait of the trials and their place in postwar global history. -- Christopher Harding, <i>History Today</i> Fascinating -- <i>The New Yorker</i>, 'Best Books of 2023' Comprehensive, landmark and riveting . . . Bass employs the complexities of the trial as a fulcrum to sketch a wide canvas . . . Fascinating -- <i>The Washington Post</i>, 'The 10 Best Books of 2023' Immersive -- <i>The New York Times</i>, 'Notable Books of 2023' Magnificent . . . Vivid . . . Profound * Foreign Affairs * Magisterial . . . Bass is a marvelous writer. * Air Mail * In this superb work of transnational history, Gary Bass uses the Tokyo trial to illuminate the making of the modern world. -- Ramachandra Guha, author of <i>India After Gandhi</i> To understand the dynamics of post-World War II Asia, Gary Bass's Judgement at Tokyo is fascinating, essential reading. -- Barbara Demick, Baillie Gifford prize-winning author of <i>Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea</i> Gary Bass has written nothing less than a masterpiece. With epic research and mesmerizing narrative power, Judgement at Tokyo has the makings of an instant classic. -- Evan Osnos, US National Book Award-winning author of <i>Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China</i> A vivid and meticulously crafted account, rich in detail, fair-minded, superbly nuanced. -- Fredrik Logevall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <i>Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam</i> Destined to become a classic, Judgement at Tokyo is meticulously researched and elegantly written: it is also a necessary book. -- Anna Sherman, author of <i>The Bells of Old Tokyo</i>
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978-1-5098-1277-6 (9781509812776)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Gary J. Bass is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Judgement at Tokyo and The Blood Telegram, winner of the Cundill History Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. A former reporter for The Economist, Bass has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Washington Post amongst others. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
