East West Street by Philippe Sands6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller, Philippe Sands guides us between past and present as several interconnected stories unfold in parallel. It set him on a quest that would take him halfway around the world in an exploration of the origins of international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials. 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. And then when I got there I didn't want to be at the end." ( The Times) ![]() And then when I got there I didn't want to be at the end." ( The Times)"Magnificent.I was moved to anger and to pity. "Magnificent.I was moved to anger and to pity. "A triumph of astonishing research.no novel could possibly match such an important work of truth." (Antony Beevor) "A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision." (John le Carré) ![]() WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION. ![]()
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