East west street : on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity /

When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, he began to uncover a series of extraordinary historical coincidences. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of int...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sands, Philippe, 1960- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
Subjects:	Sands, Philippe, > 1960- > Family. Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. Crimes against humanity (International law) > History. Genocide (International law) > History. Crimes against humanity > Europe, Eastern > History. Genocide > Europe, Eastern > History. Trials (Crimes against humanity) > History. Genocide > history War Crimes > legislation & jurisprudence Human Rights Abuses > history Procès successeurs, Nuremberg, Allemagne, 1946-1949. Crimes contre l'humanité > Europe de l'Est > Histoire. Procès (Crimes contre l'humanité) > Histoire. Droit international > Histoire. Advice and Rights. Sands, Philippe, > 1960- Crimes against humanity. Families. Genocide. Trials (Crimes against humanity) Eastern Europe. Germany > Nuremberg. Sands, Philippe, > 1960- > Família. Crims contra la humanitat. Genocidi. Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945. Holocaust Jueu (1939-1945) > Ucraïna. International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. International crimes. Jurisconsults. History of international law. Biographies, memoirs and correspondance. 1946-1949 History. Biographies.

Table of Contents:

Prologue : an invitation
Leon
Lauterpacht
Miss Tilney of Norwich
Lemkin
The man in a bow tie
Frank
The child who stands alone
Nuremberg
The girl who chose not to remember
Judgement
Epilogue : to the woods.