Join Flying Pig Bookstore at Shelburne Town Hall Monday, February 24th at 7PM, for an evening with Jack Fairweather to celebrate the launch of his new book, The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice.

On The Prosecutor:

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Volunteer, the powerful true story of a Jewish lawyer who returned to Germany after World War II to prosecute war crimes, only to find himself pitted against a nation determined to bury the past.

At the end of the Nuremberg trials in 1946, some of the greatest war criminals in history were sentenced to death, but hundreds of thousands of Nazi murderers and collaborators remained at large. The Allies were ready to overlook their pasts as the Cold War began, and the legacy of the Holocaust was in danger of being forgotten. In The Prosecutor, Jack Fairweather brings to life the heroic story of Fritz Bauer who survived the Nazis as a gay Jewish man to force his countrymen–and the world–to confront their complicity in the genocide. In this deeply researched book, Fairweather draws on Bauer’s unpublished family papers, newly reclassified German records, and exclusive interviews with those who knew him, to take readers into Bauer’s mission to bring Adolf Eichmann and the perpetrators of Auschwitz to justice. The Prosecutor is an extraordinary, untold Cold War story of a detective on the trail of the mankind’s darkest crimes, who battled his government, took on a Nazi network of killers and spies, and survived to inspire a new generation.

Jack Fairweather is the author of the Costa Book Award-winner The Volunteer, a #1 bestseller in the UK that’s been hailed as a modern classic and compared to Schindler’s List. He served as a correspondent for The Washington Post and the Daily Telegraph, where he was the paper’s Baghdad and Persian Gulf bureau chief. He lives in Vermont.

Additional details at the Flying Pig Bookstore posting.