Charles Lachman & Natalie Livingstone

The 35^th Edition of the Book Festival of the MJCCA Presents

Charles Lachman & Natalie Livingstone 

Author Talk, Q & A & Book Signing

CHARLES LACHMAN, They Shall Not See the Dawn: The Manhunt for the Third Reich’s Most Wanted

May, 1945. The Reich is in ruins. Hitler is dead. Yet for the US Army’s Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), the real war has just begun.

From bestselling author and historian Charles Lachman, They Shall Not See the Dawn is the true historical thriller that follows a unit of American agents, drawn from every walk of life, hunting Hitler’s dangerous henchmen still at large. It was a race against time to capture World War II’s most notorious Nazis before they could vanish or rally a new resistance. The CIC men were college students, linguists, an actor, young draftees, and refugees armed with guns, intellect, intuition, and sheer daring. Their quarry included Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Gestapo chief; Julius Streicher, Hitler’s “Jewbaiter”; Robert Ley, master of slave labor; and other war criminals desperate to escape justice. Against all odds, the CIC brought them down, ensuring their places in the dock at Nuremberg.

Upon the eightieth anniversary of the Nuremberg hangings, They Shall Not See the Dawn resurrects America’s “G-men in khakis,” the men who ensured that the architects of Nazi horror would never walk free.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Lachman is the author of one novel and five narrative nonfiction books, including the national bestseller Codename Nemo, Footsteps in the Snow, and The Last Lincolns. Many of his books have been adapted into CNN and Lifetime docuseries. He is also the executive producer of Inside Edition, the most widely watched syndicated news magazine in the United States. He has been featured on CBS Mornings, CNN, MSNBC, History, Lifetime, C-Span, Sirius/XM, and other local and national programs. He lives in New York City.

NATALIE LIVINGSTONE, The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice

In November 1945, the eyes of the world turned to Nuremberg. Humanity was seeking not only the truth about Nazi crimes but also a vision of what justice might look like in their aftermath. The trials are traditionally associated with a roll call of famous men, but they were only part of the story. Not only were there women involved in the trial in every role—as journalists, researchers, lawyers, interpreters, court reporters, witnesses, artists, and even defendants—but they were pivotal in the trial’s outcome.

The Nuremberg Women tells the story of eight women: a brilliant American lawyer, three pioneering journalists, two German, one British, an iconoclastic artist, a beautiful refugee aristocrat, a dauntless survivor of Auschwitz, and a young Russian translator.

From the major stories about justice, gender, and politics at a pivotal moment in the twentieth century to the smaller, daily intimate tales of the women’s affairs and bar-room disputes, The Nuremberg Women shows the most famous trial of the twentieth century in a new light—making a brave new case for it having been a more diverse and democratic exercise than has often been recognized.

They reveal a Nuremberg that is more intimate, human, and haphazard; one that was lower paid and less publicized. They demonstrate that the trial was remarkable not because it was perfect but because, against all odds, it happened. Thanks to these women and many others, justice was served.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Natalie Livingstone graduated with a first-class degree in history from Christ's College, Cambridge. She began her career as a feature writer at the Daily Express and contributes to Tatler, Harper's Bazaar, American Vogue, Elle, The Times and The Mail on Sunday. She is the author of The Mistresses of Cliveden, The Women of Rothschild and The Nuremberg Women. Natalie is also the founder and chair of the annual Cliveden Literary which she launched in 2017.

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