Natalie Livingstone in conversation with Hallie Rubenhold
Daunt Books83 Marylebone High Street
Tue 20 Oct · 18:30 · £6
About this event
Nuremberg, 1945. The eyes of a world desperate for truth, hope and justice turn to a courtroom where the leaders of the defeated Nazi regime sit in the dock. In this revelatory history, Natalie Livingstone sheds new light on the trial of the century, through the stories of extraordinary women whose importance has long been ignored. Natalie evaporates the mythic lack of female influence through testimonies and accounts in this eight-life biography of the women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials. We meet anti-fascist journalist Erika Mann, Hungarian countess Ingeborg Kálnoky, Russian interpreter Tatiana Stupnikova, German writer Ursula von Kardorff, American lawyer Harriet Zetterberg, British painter Laura Knight, celebrated writer Rebecca West, and Auschwitz survivor and French Resistance fighter Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier’s whose accounts were left out of this critical moment of our 20th century history. Seen through the eyes of these astonishing women, the story of Nuremberg is a monumental human drama full of hope and romance, terror and conflict. It is the story of a search for truth among misinformation, love among ruins and light in overwhelming darkness. Joining Natalie in conversation will be award-winning, bestselling author, social historian, broadcaster and historical consultant for TV and film, Hallie Rubenhold . Hallie’s first book, The Five was the 2019 winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction. Story of a Murder is her much anticipated follow up.
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