From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mistresses of Cliveden and The Women of Rothschild, the overlooked history of the crucial role played by women during Nuremberg, the most famous trial of the twentieth century.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history' Salman Rushdie

'Brilliant . . . History erased these women. Natalie is righting that wrong. So fascinating, you've got to get this book in your life' Chris Evans

'A book that is as interesting as it is important. Beautifully written and immaculately researched, Livingstone transforms what we think and know about a terrible moment in history by focusing on a group of remarkable women, their incredible stories and why their example should inspire us all' Peter Frankopan

'If you think you know all about the Nuremberg trials, you don't; not until you have read Natalie Livingstone's enthralling book' Simon Schama

'Paints eight talented and courageous women back into a picture . . . a masterclass in the restoration of sidelined voices . . . Poignantly told and magnificently written, I found it absolutely unputdownable' Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five

'Nuremberg as you've never imagined it . . . passionately written and wrought in riveting detail, The Nuremberg Women delivers a hugely timely corrective to the historical record. A book that I will return to again and again' Damien Lewis

'Vivid, gripping and timely . . . restores the women of Nuremberg to their rightful place at the moral and emotional heart of the story . . . As pacy as a thriller and as powerful as its rawest testimony: a coruscating portrayal of courage, creativity and resilience in the face of unprecedented horror' Catherine Ostler

'Perceptive, meticulous and full of humanity. Expands our understanding of a critical episode of 20th century history' Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist

'A landmark book, urgent history for our current age' Kate Williams, author of Royal Women

NUREMBERG, 1945. The eyes of a world desperate for truth, hope and justice turn to a courtroom where the leaders of the defeated Nazi regime sit in the dock. In this revelatory history, Natalie Livingstone sheds new light on the trial of the century, through the stories of extraordinary women whose importance has long been ignored.

Anti-fascist journalist Erika Mann - daughter of Germany's most famous writer - came to Nuremberg seeking a reckoning with a Germany she had fled more than a decade before, while Hungarian countess Ingeborg Kalnoky found herself presiding over a guest house in which perpetrators and survivo

Details

ISBN13: 9781399813440
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 432
Edition:
Publication Date: 28 Apr 2026
Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication City, Country: United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 23(H)x15.2(L)x3.8(W)520
Weight (gm): 520

Author Biography

Natalie Livingstone was born and raised in London. She graduated with a first class degree in history from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1998. She began her career as a feature writer at the Daily Express and now contributes to Tatler, Harper's Bazaar, US Vogue, Elle, The Times and The Mail on Sunday.

Natalie lives in London with her husband and three children.

Reviews

Livingstone has an eye for drama and an effortless fluency that keeps the pages turning . . . such a fresh and compelling narrative * The Spectator *
This is a kaleidoscopic eight-life biography with electrifying stories. . . . And like a knife, it brilliantly slices through the machismo, violence and mass horror inflicted by men in the war, in the absence of female influence * Independent *
Natalie Livingstone's deeply researched, unfailingly fascinating book gives the many extraordinary women at or near the centre of the Nuremberg trials their proper, important, and often ignored place in history -- Salman Rushdie
If you think you know all about the Nuremberg trials, you don't; not until you have read Natalie Livingstone's enthralling book, that grave moment seen for the first time through the eyes of women who were very much there and whose stories have been waiting for a narrative as gripping and movingly perceptive as this one -- Simon Schama
A book that is as interesting as it is important. Beautifully written and immaculately researched, Livingstone transforms what we think and know about a terrible moment in history by focusing on a group of remarkable women, their incredible stories and why their example should inspire us all -- Peter Frankopan
A dramatic and compelling read - with her meticulous research and passionate storytelling, Natalie Livingstone paints eight talented and courageous women back into a picture from which they had been erased. The Nuremberg Women is a masterclass in the restoration of sidelined voices - it proves that yet again, the history we learned is only half the tale. Poignantly told and magnificently written, I found it absolutely unputdownable -- HALLIE RUBENHOLD, author of THE FIVE: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Perceptive, meticulous and full of humanity, The Nuremberg Women expands our understanding of a critical episode of 20th century history. By focusing on the women who were written out of the story for so long, this book allows us to see through fresh eyes the reality - and significance - of the Nuremberg trials, whose impact is felt to this very day. -- Jonathan Freedland, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST
Brilliant . . . History erased these women. Natalie is righting that wrong. So fascinating, you've got to get this book in your life -- Chris Evans
Nurnberg as you've never imagined it or seen it portrayed - the story as revealed through the pivotal role played by eight remarkable women, of diverse nationalities and backgrounds, working at the coalface to bring the worst of the Nazi war criminals to justice. Beautifully and passionately written and wrought in riveting detail, The Nuremberg Women reveals the secret history behind the stories of the high profile men so often associated with the 'trial of the century', delivering a hugely timely corrective to the historical record. A book that I will return to again and again -- Damien Lewis, author of THE GREAT TRAIN RAID
Beyond powerful, this deeply researched and moving book is brilliant, unforgettable, vital history. This fascinating, searing book about these women throws open the door onto their essential work and is just gripping. Natalie Livingstone's important scholarship and perceptive, sensitive approach is quite simply revelatory. A landmark book, urgent history for our current age -- Kate Williams
Some of the twentieth century's most fascinating women - Rebecca West, Laura Knight, Erika Mann, Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier - congregated around its greatest reckoning: the Nuremberg trials. In this vivid, gripping and timely re-examination of the trials, Natalie Livingstone restores the women of Nuremberg to their rightful place at the moral and emotional heart of the story. Deeply researched, exquisitely told, Livingstone's account is as pacy as a thriller and as powerful as its rawest testimony: a coruscating portrayal of courage, creativity and resilience in the face of unprecedented horror -- Catherine Ostler, author of DUCHESS COUNTESS
What Livingstone contributes is an engaging and more rounded account of the context in which the trials took place, peopling the proceedings with some of their long-neglected and endlessly interesting female characters * Literary Review *
Untold stories of trailblazing lawyers, Holocaust survivors & writers who brought Nazis to justice * Daily Mirror & Daily Express *