Once Adolf Hitler was defeated, U.S. Army chaplain Henry Gerecke received his most challenging assignment : he was sent to Nuremberg to minister to the twenty-one imprisoned Nazi leaders awaiting trial for crimes against humanity...As the drama leading to the court's final judgments unfolds, Tim Townsend brings Gerecke's impossible moral quandary to life. Gerecke had visited Dachau and had seen the consequences of the choices these men had made, the orders they had given and carried out...Detailed, harrowing, and emotionally charged, Mission at Nuremberg is an incisive new history of the Nuremberg trials as well as a nuanced reflection on the nature of morality and sin, the price of empathy, and the limits of forgiveness.

Originally published New York : WIliam Morrow, 2014.