A Passing Fury

[An] earnest, unsettling book… Williams is a thoughtful, lucid writer, with a lawyer’s appetite for detail… A Passing Fury is heartfelt, moving and often powerfully written. – Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times *Williams… carries the reader along in his fluent and passionate prose – Richard J. Evans * Guardian *A haunting, sensitive and thoughtful study – Nigel Jones * Daily Telegraph *Absorbing… Williams skilfully reveals a chaotic world in which war crimes investigation teams, generally lacking even the most basic resources, were left to do their best in extremely trying circumstances * Scotsman *Williams has put together an original polemic against our assumptions about these trials, including those at Nuremberg. – David Herman * New Statesman *Williams is a first-rate storyteller who has a gift for bringing the past to life in an accessible and compelling way. – Hester Vaizey * Times Higher Education *The book [has] an attractively meditative quality. – Lawrence Douglas * Times Literary Supplement *Splendid book… Much more than a historical narrative and assessment… This is a superb book which offers no easy answers but invites the reader to join its author on a grim odyssey. * History Today *This is a fine book that does a great job of debunking one of the most enduring myths in history. * History of War *A fascinating read. – Lisa Pine * BBC History Magazine *

A. T. Williams won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013 for his book A Very British Killing- The Death of Baha Mousa. He lives in Warwickshire.