East West street : on the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity / Philippe Sands.
Imprint
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.
Description
xxx, 464 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Formatted Contents Note
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 to remember Judgement Epilogue : To the woods.
Summary
"Sands traces the events that overwhelmed his mothers family in Lviv and Vienna during the Second World War and led his grandfather to leave his wife and daughter behind as war came to Europe. 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." --Publisher.
