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She shrugged. ‘Not really. There’s an annual award for the worst adaptation of an author’s work. I don’t know if you’ve heard of it. The BADs – Book Adaptation Disasters – and Joan was the winner three or four years ago.’

— Lights! Camera! Mayhem! by Jodi Taylor (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #15) (22%)

Jodl was most bewildered by being held responsible for his acts as a soldier. ‘I don’t see how they can fail to recognize a soldier’s obligation to obey orders. That’s the code I’ve lived by all my life.’ Obviously he had not recently read the commandment in his army paybook which forbade any soldier to obey illegal orders. Nor had Keitel who commented on Gilbert’s indictment: ‘For a soldier, orders are orders.’

— The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa, John Tusa (24%)

The Russians and French did not need to read Nazi documents; they had lived under, suffered from these organizations too long. But that did not mean they would accept just any scheme for ensuring the punishment of their members. It had to suit their sense of justice too.

— The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa, John Tusa (14%)