<p>Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice 1945 was the scene of a trial without precedent in history a trial that continues to haunt the modern world. With his customary authority and audacity William F. Buckley Jr. has taken a pivotal moment in history and shaped it into a novel of riveting insight and understanding.</p> <p>Leading the listener into the palace is interpreter-interrogator Sebastian a young German-American whose fate is entwined with the lives and deaths of some towering figures of twentieth-century history including Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler. In a gripping account of war makers who must face the consequences of their actions <em>Nuremberg: The Reckoning </em>flows through Warsaw Berlin Munich Hamburg and finally Nuremberg as Sebastian comes to terms with his family legacy and his national identity.</p>