
$41.27
- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
25 April 2017
Summary
East West Street: A Journey Through Memory, Crime, and the Origins of Justice
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER
‘A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision’ John le Carre
‘One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable’ S…
Book Details
ISBN-13: | 9781474601917 |
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ISBN-10: | 147460191X |
Author: | Philippe Sands |
Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Format: | Paperback |
Number of Pages: | 496 |
Release Date: | 25 April 2017 |
Weight: | 366g |
Dimensions: | 192mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision
Engrossing … Sands has written a remarkable and enjoyable book, deftly weaving his own family history into a lively account of the travails of the early campaigners for international human rights law - LITERARY REVIEWA vivid and readable contribution, part memoir, part documentary, to the history debate … Much of the most compelling material in this book is personal … Moving and powerful - FINANCIAL TIMESIn a triumph of astonishing research, Sands has brilliantly woven together several family stories which lead to the great denouement at the Nuremberg tribunal. No novel could possibly match such an important work of truthA narrative to my knowledge unprecedented … We have in Sands’s EAST WEST STREET a machine of power and beauty that should not be ignored by anyone - NEW YORK TIMESDazzling, shatttering. East West Street is one of the most extraordinary books that I have ever read.About The Author
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is Professor of Public Understanding of Law at UCL, visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a practising barrister at 11 KBW. He has been involved in many significant international cases in recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Guantanamo, Chagos and the Rohingya. He has served as President of English PEN and as a member of the board of the Hay Festival.
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