Due to a sudden, unexpected passing in the family a few years ago and another more recently and my subsequent (mental) health issues stemming from that, I was unable to download this book in time to review it before it was archived as I did not visit this site for several years after the bereavements. This meant I didn't read or venture onto netgalley for years as not only did it remind me of that person as they shared my passion for reading, but I also struggled to maintain interest in anything due to overwhelming depression. I was therefore unable to download this title in time and so I couldn't give a review as it wasn't successfully acquired before it was archived. The second issue that has happened with some of my other books is that I had them downloaded to one particular device and said device is now defunct, so I have no access to those books anymore, sadly.

This means I can't leave an accurate reflection of my feelings towards the book as I am unable to read it now and so I am leaving a message of explanation instead. I am now back to reading and reviewing full time as once considerable time had passed I have found that books have been helping me significantly in terms of my mindset and mental health - this was after having no interest in anything for quite a number of years after the passings. Anything requested and approved will be read and a review written and posted to Amazon (where I am a Hall of Famer & Top Reviewer), Goodreads (where I have several thousand friends and the same amount who follow my reviews) and Waterstones (or Barnes & Noble if the publisher is American based). Thank you for the opportunity and apologies for the inconvenience

I've came to this court and cried because there's noting else one can do when faced with the endless cruelty inflicted on innocent people at the stake of yet another ideology.

The injustice of still having to fight for justice 70-80 year since the actual events is crushing. There are no word to describe the cruelty of the aftermath of the war. The inhumanity of war criminals living a cushy life when million of lives have been wasted. It is barbaric how victims have been ignored and their testimony rejected on the altar of law. Law is a sort of sham, isn't it?!

Coming from a East European country myself I have a bit of an understanding of the complex position many of the other countries in East Europe found themselves. Small countries, caught between two very powerful entities: Germany and Russia. How is one able to chose between 2 evils? Hard to say. Many atrocities have been committed and too many have been lefts unpunished. A very sad state of affairs that has inflicted too many wounds.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for approving me for this arc!

This book was different to what I thought, it was a lot more wordy than I was excepting especially for not having as many pages as I thought it was taking me quite a while to get through!

I didn’t have the urge to constantly want to pick it up like I thought I would unfortunately.

Besides this the book was very informative and made sure that nothing was left out

A few years ago the author discovered a man who had been dead for fifty years. A former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather was the subject of an ongoing investigation in Latvia.

This is a story steeped in history and a personal memoir related to the history of the Holocaust in Latvia. The book is well written and researched but a little dry in places.

I would recommend this book to those interested in reading a slightly different slant on the despicable crimes performed by humans upon humans. As with all material related to the Holocaust, it's not for the faint-hearted.

My thanks to #Netgalley, #BloomsburyPublishing and the author, #LindaKinstler for this free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

It feels wrong to say I enjoyed this book considering the topic of the Holocaust and the atrocities that were carried out, however it is a book I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It was interesting, considerate and obviously very well researched and held my attention very well.

It was sensitive to the subject and respectful towards the survivors and the people involved. A good edition to books on this subject.

Part history, part investigative memoir, Come to this Court and Cry is an intelligent account of the Holocaust in Latvia as told through the lens of the law. Exploring the sensitive subject of historical revisionism through the ongoing case of Herberts Cukurs, Kinstler poses the question what if the antonym of 'forgetting' is not 'remembering', but justice?

It's a captivating, thought-provoking read, providing the reader with an insight not only into the historical facts of the Holocaust in Latvia, but also the importance of interpretation, and the way historical crimes are addressed by the law.

I simply devoured this book. I found it compulsive and deeply disturbing. I love the way in which history can be written in such a personal and direct way. There are so very many books on the Holocaust and the horrors of the Second World War but this one will stand out in my mind for avery long time.

It is difficult if not impossible to say that I "enjoyed" this book given its appalling and tragic subject matter but this was a brilliantly evocative and well executed and perhaps cathartic account of how Linda Kinstler's grandfather was involved in the Nazi death squads exterminating the Jews in Latvia.

I find it hard to read much about the Holocaust and antisemitism this is a worthy and well written addition to the genre.

A fascinating account of the Holocaust in Latvia and the role of the author's grandfather in a specific unit who carried out many executions of Jewish people by bullet.

A huge amount of research has gone into this book to make it a captivating read. I understand that the premise of it is to discover more about the author's grandfather but to me, his role is so unclear as so little is known about it that it just appears at various parts of the story to little consequence. The story feels ultimately about Cukurs, his assassination and the revisionist approach being taken in Latvia with regards to Cukurs.

Overall it is a well written and well researched book. I noticed that the author sometimes writes in the present tense with regards to past events and I found that irritating at times. Also, I think the addition of photos of Boris in his Nazi uniform and of Cukurs would be beneficial in further engaging the reader.

This is a pressing engagement with how to think about not just the Holocaust but with its continuing legacies in the twenty-first century. The author's grandfather was a Nazi officer who operated in a killing squad with Herbert Cukurs: a man who was judged responsible for the murder of over 30,000 Jews and was himself executed in Uruguay by Mossad, even though he also saved at least one Jewish woman by taking her into his home.

Kinstler approaches this legacy through multiple directions: the personal in terms of coming to terms with her own family history. And the legal and political, thinking through why, for example, "survivors have been telling the story of the Holocaust for the better part of a century, and still the judges ask for proof.".

This isn't - and can't be - a neat book, and it's all the stronger for dealing with complexities and perplexities, as well as thinking about the moral implications of those big terms like 'justice', 'history', and 'memory'.

I really enjoyed this book, even more than I thought I would have based on the description. I actually think the description is missing a few details that would perhaps make this a bit more eye-catching; for example, although the author's paternal grandfather was a Latvian Nazi collaborator, her maternal side is Latvian Jewish and she was raised Jewish -- I think that this gives her an incredibly interesting and nuanced perspective, as well as the ability to really understand the 'shades of gray' that make up a person's character.

Additionally, I was a bit surprised that the description didn't mention that the "former Nazi who belonged to the same killing unit as her grandfather" was actually Herberts Cukurs -- this would have piqued my interest even more since his assassination and trial(s) were and are very high-profile. Even though I was familiar with the case, I still learned a lot from the author, whose own research and connections filled in a lot of details I haven't seen elsewhere. I also believe that her complicated family history gives her a really unique understanding of how someone can be both good and bad.

The author did an excellent job of explaining Latvia's desire to minimize its citizens' roles as Nazi collaborators in as balanced of a way as one could possibly do from a Western perspective. Without minimizing how absolutely terrifying it is that Latvia and other Baltic countries are trying to shirk responsibility for the Holocaust, I think that Kinstler did an admirable job of providing the right context around why this reshaping of history is so important to the relatively new nation's sense of autonomy and patriotism.

The only criticism I have is that the personal part of the plot (trying to better understand her grandfather's role as a collaborator) didn't always pull through the rest of the narrative, nor did it really progress throughout the book -- I feel like she could have done more to tie up that thread instead of focusing on the trial so much.

Many thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this advanced copy!