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by Philippe Sands

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This seller has earned a 4.46 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers widely praise Philippe Sands’s book as a powerful fusion of family memoir, intellectual history, and legal drama that clarifies how the concepts of genocide and crimes against humanity took shape, with Lviv as a poignant anchor. The research is seen as meticulous, the prose clear and often gripping, and the personal threads—especially the author’s search for his grandfather and the Nuremberg focus on Lauterpacht, Lemkin, and Hans Frank—lend strong emotional force. Some note the structure can feel sprawling and dense, with many names and some repetition, and say the audio edition is harder to navigate than the photo-rich print version. Overall, it’s regarded as an important, timely, and deeply moving work that richly rewards attentive readers.

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A profound, important book, a moving personal detective story and an uncovering of secret pasts, set in Europe's center, the city of bright colors--Lviv, Ukraine, dividing east from west, north from south, in what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A book that explores the development of the world-changing legal concepts of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity" that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich.

It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities. This is "a monumental achievement ... told with love, anger and precision" (John le Carr, acclaimed internationally bestselling author).

East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of "genocide" and "crimes against humanity," both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in "the Paris of Ukraine," a major cultural center of Europe, a city variously called Lemberg, Lww, Lvov, or Lviv.

Phillipe Sands changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder

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  • Title East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
  • Author Philippe Sands
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Publication date 2017-07-11
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780525433729 / 0525433724
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg,, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Ukraine -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 341.690

About the author

PHILIPPE SANDS is an international lawyer and a professor of law at University College London. He is the author of Lawless World and Torture Team and is a frequent commentator on CNN and the BBC World Service. Sands lectures around the world and has taught at New York University and been a visiting professor at the University of Toronto, the University of Melbourne, and the Universit de Paris I (Sorbonne). In 2003 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. He lives in London, England.
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