THE WRITERS CASTLE

A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness it Nuremberg 1945 As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin some of the world s most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city Among them are Rebecca West John Dos Passos Martha Gellhorn Erika Mann and Janet Flanner Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber Castell where reporters sleep ten to a room complain about the food and argue in the lively bar they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing Here tensions simmer between Soviet and Western journalists unlikely affairs begin stories are falsified and fabricated and each reporter is forever changed by what they experience As Uwe Neumahr builds an engrossing group portrait of the literary luminaries at Nuremberg we are taken to the heart of the political and cultural conflicts of the time observing history at the very moment it was being written