This is a book about Norman Birkett, one of the most humane judges of his time. In 1946 he was one of two British judges at the international war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg. Later he was promoted to the Court of Appeal and on his retirement was created Lord Birkett (in the 1958 New Year Honours list). Born in 1883 in Ulverston, he was educated at Barrow-in-Furness Higher Grade School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He had two spells as Liberal MP for Nottingham East in the 1920s and early 1930s. During World War II, he delivered weekly radio broadcasts after the Friday night news to counter the broadcasts of William Joyce, known as Lord Haw Haw. They were considered to be a morale boost during the so-called Phoney War. On 21st November 1961 he officially opened the public library in Ulverston. He died in 1962 after failed surgery to mend a ruptured blood vessel. No dustjacket.ABOUT THE AUTHORHarford Montgomery Hyde was born on 14 August 1907 in Belfast, the son of James Johnstone Hyde and Isobel Greenfield (née Montgomery). He was educated at Sedbergh School; Queen\'s University, Belfast (where he gained a first class History degree); then at Magdalen College Oxford (where he gained a second class law degree). He was called to the bar in 1934. From 1935-1939, Hyde was librarian and Private Secretary to the 7th Marquess of Londonderry. In 1939 he married Dorothy Mabel Brayshaw Crofts (divorced 1952).During World War II, Hyde held several positions. He served as an Assistant Censor in Gibraltar (1940) and was commissioned in the intelligence corps and engaged in counter-espionage work in the United States under Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination in the Western Hemisphere (whose life Hyde published as \"The Quiet Canadian\" in 1962). He was also Military Liaison and Security Officer, Bermuda (1940-41); Assistant Passport Control Officer, New York (1941-2); with British Army Staff, USA (1942-4); attached to the Supreme HQ Allied Expeditionary Force (1944) and then to the Allied Commission for Austria (1944-5).Hyde was the Assistant Editor of the Law Reports (1946-7), then Legal Adviser to the British Lion Film Corporation Ltd (1947-9). From 1950-59 he was a Unionist MP for East Belfast and was the UK Delegate to the Council of Europe Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg (1952-5). From 1958-61 Hyde was an Honorary Colonel of the Intelligence Corps (Territorial Army), Northern Ireland. After losing his parliamentary seat, Hyde was Professor of History and Political Science at the University of the Punjab in Lahore (1959-61).In 1955, Hyde married his second wife Mary Eleanor Fischer. The marriage was dissolved in 1966 and he married Rosalind Roberts Dimond. He died on August 10 1989.Hyde wrote a great many books on a wide variety of subjects including \"The Rise of Castlereagh\" (1933); \"The Quiet Canadian\" (1962); \"Cynthia\" (1962) and \"Secret Intelligence Agent\" (1982).The held at Churchill Archives Centre chiefly consist of the papers and letters Montgomery Hyde collected and generated in the course of writing three of his books: \"The Quiet Canadian\" (a biography of Sir William Stephenson, Director of British Security Co-ordination in the Western Hemisphere, 1940-46); \"Cynthia\" (a biography of the British agent Elizabeth (Pack) Brousse); and \"Secret Intelligence Agent\" (which included descriptions of his own wartime experiences). The collection also includes papers and letters relating to Hyde\'s work in Censorship and Security in Gibraltar, Bermuda and the USA during the Second World War; and in the legal division of the Allied Control Commission in Austria.