ON TRIAL History-Making Trials from Socrates to Oppenheimer

Hardback. Originally pub. 1962 as 'Man on Trial'. The 13 trials recorded in these pages have been selected for the imprint they left upon Western history and the illumination they cast upon their own troubled times. Each represents a phenomenon seldom seen and generally unrecognised, which makes its appearance when society is at war with itself, when fresh ideas and new values are being born on the tangled bed of social upheaval. Featuring : Socrates (399 B.C.); Jesus (30 A,D.); Joan of Arc (1431); Galileo Galilei (1633); Charles I (1649); Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692); Andrew Johnson (1868); The Dreyfus Case (1894); The Scopes Trial (1925); The Reichstag Fire Trial (1933); The Moscow Trials (1936-1938); The Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946); The Oppenheimer Hearing (1954). With Bibliog. and Index. 452pp. lge. 8vo. h/back. Vg+ in Vg+ dw. A fairly heavy book which will require additional postage if shipped overseas.