The International Military Tribunal (IMT), or Nuremberg Trials, organized by the victorious Allied powers immediately after World War II, was intended to bring the Nazis to justice for their crimes and restore a sense of justice to a world ravaged by violence. And although the role that the Soviet Union played in organizing this trial is fundamental, it is often lost in modern accounts. As Francine Hirsch shows, without Soviet participation Nuremberg would never have happened: it was Soviet jurists who developed the legal framework treating war as an international crime, which gave the trial a legal basis. However, Stalin’s attempts to remotely control the course of the trial disrupted the plans of the Soviet side, the American side imposed its strategy of prosecution, and the Nazi defense side openly raised the issue of the USSR’s involvement in crimes against peace at Tribunal meetings. When relations between the four allied countries finally deteriorated, Nuremberg turned from a symbol of justice into an early front of the Cold War. The book gives the reader a front-row seat to the Nuremberg courtroom and a behind-the-scenes look where its organizers shared secrets, charted strategies, and forged alliances. Francine Hirsch is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.