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Zusatztext In an age in which truth has become more elusive than ever! this is a brave! passionate book that makes its readers witnesses of a search for it...One of the best examples of analytical thinking and research combined with fine storytelling. Informationen zum Autor Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. He frequently appears before international courts! and has been involved in many of the most important cases of recent years! including Pinochet! Congo! Yugoslavia! Rwanda! Iraq! Guantanamo and the Rohingya of Myanmar. He is the author of LAWLESS WORLD! TORTURE TEAM and the Sunday Times bestselling EAST WEST STREET! which also won the Baillie Gifford Prize and was named Non-fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family history Zusammenfassung 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal! told with love! anger and great precision' - John le Carré 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 international law and the pursuit of his own secret family history! beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg Trials. 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. The first is the hidden story of two Nuremberg prosecutors who discover! only at the end of the trials! that the man they are prosecuting may be responsible for the murder of their entire families in Nazi-occupied Poland! in and around Lviv. The two prosecutors! Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin! were remarkable men! whose efforts led to the inclusion of the terms 'crimes against humanity' and 'genocide' in the judgement at Nuremberg. The defendant! Hans Frank! Hitler's personal lawyer and Governor-General of Nazi-occupied Poland! turns out to be an equally compelling character. The lives of these three men lead Sands to a more personal story! as he traces the events that overwhelmed his mother's family in Lviv and Vienna during the Second World War. At the heart of this book is an equally personal quest to understand the roots of international law and the concepts that have dominated Sands' work as a lawyer. Eventually! he finds unexpected answers to his questions about his family! in this powerful meditation on the way memory! crime and guilt leave scars across generations! and the haunting gaps left by the secrets of others. ...
