A history of political trials: from Charles I to Saddam Hussein/
John Laughland
- England: Peter Lang, 2008.
- 315 p. ; 22 cm.
- (Past in the present) .
The trial of Charles I and the last judgment -- The trial of Louis XVI and the Terror -- War guilt after World War I -- Defeat in the dock : the Riom trial -- Justice as purge : Marshal Pétain faces his accusers -- Treachery on trial : the case of Vidkun Quisling -- Nuremberg : making war illegal -- Creating legitimacy : the trial of Marshal Antonescu -- Ethnic cleansing and national cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947 -- People's justice in liberated Hungary -- From mass execution to amnesty and pardon : postwar trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece -- Politics as conspiracy : the Tokyo trials -- The Greek colonels, Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine generals : transitional justice, 1975-2007 -- Revolution returns : the trial of Nicolae Ceauşescu -- A state on trial : Erich Honecker in Moabit -- Jean Kambanda, convicted without trial -- Kosovo and the New World Order : the trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- Regime change and the trial of Saddam Hussein -- Conclusion.
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