{"product_id":"9780143793335","title":"Stern Justice","description":"Author: Wakeling, Adam\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780143793335\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Sep 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War are infamous, as are the atrocities committed by Japan in that conflict, few now remember the trials that prosecuted Japanese personnel for those crimes. \u003ci\u003eStern Justice \u003c\/i\u003erecovers this forgotten story in a gripping, powerfully written history of an event that saw Australia emerge as a player on the stage of international law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'For the first time Australia speaks, not for herself alone, but for the whole British Commonwealth.' \u003cbr\u003eSo wrote a journalist about Australia's leading role in the Allied program of war crimes trials which followed the end of the Second World War in the Pacific. An Australian judge, Sir William Webb, was president of the Tokyo Trial of Japan's wartime political and military leaders, and Australia conducted hundreds of other trials throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The most tenacious of the Allied prosecutors, Australia led the unsuccessful bid to prosecute Emperor Hirohito as a war criminal and was the last country to conduct war crimes trials against the Japanese, on Manus Island in 1951. \u003cbr\u003eThe aim of the trials was to prevent a repetition of the horrors of the Pacific War, in which millions had perished, mostly civilians, and tens of thousands of prisoners of war had died in Japanese captivity. Yet debate around the trials was fierce at the time - whether they had a legal basis, whether the Emperor should have been prosecuted, and whether their devastating bombing of Japanese cities had robbed the Allies of the moral authority to put their enemies on trial.\u003cbr\u003eSeventy years on, much remains to be learnt from both the successes and failures of these trials. Were they fair? Were their goals realistic? Were they acts of justice or revenge? With international law more important today than ever, \u003ci\u003eStern Justice\u003c\/i\u003e makes an irrefutable case for not allowing them to stay forgotten.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293898191006,"sku":"UBD-9780143793335","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780143793335.jpg?v=1789729293","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780143793335","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}