East West Street

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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity is a 2016 book by Philippe Sands that examines the lives of two Jewish lawyers, Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin, born within three years of each other and students in the same city on the eastern outskirts of Europe, created the legal concept of crimes against humanity and genocide.[1] It is a memoir and history of the origins of international human rights law in the aftermath of the Second World War.[2][3][4]

Reviews[]

Daniel Finkelstein in The Times described as: 'A magnificent book. A work of great brilliance. There is narrative sweep and intellectual grip. Everything that happens is inevitable and yet comes as a surprise. I was moved to anger and to pity. In places I gasped, in places I wept. I wanted to reach the end. I couldn't wait to reach the end. And then when I got there I didn't want to be at the end.'[5]

John le Carre called it: 'A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision.'[6]

Dominic Sandbrook in The Sunday Times wrote: 'Supremely gripping. Sands has produced something extraordinary. Written with novelistic skill, its prose effortlessly poised, its tone perfectly judged, his book teems with life, from the bustling streets of Habsburg Lviv to the high drama of the Nuremberg trials. One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable.'[7]

Prizes[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "The birth of genocide - Twentieth-century history & later". TLS. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  2. ^ "East West Street by Philippe Sands: 9780525433729 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  3. ^ Swart, Mia (2018-09-01). "Philippe Sands, East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity'". Journal of International Criminal Justice. 16 (4): 959–961. doi:10.1093/jicj/mqy058. ISSN 1478-1387.
  4. ^ "Subscribe to read | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2021-05-26. Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. ^ Finkelstein, Daniel. "Book of the week: East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  6. ^ East West Street. 2018-07-13.
  7. ^ Sandbrook, Review by Dominic. "Books: East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Philippe Sands". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  8. ^ "Philippe Sands wins the 2016 Baillie Gifford prize for nonfiction". the Guardian. 2016-11-15. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  9. ^ "The best history books of 2016". the Guardian. 2016-12-01. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  10. ^ UCL (2017-02-24). "Professor Philippe Sands QC wins 2017 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize". UCL Faculty of Laws. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
  11. ^ UCL (2017-05-09). "Professor Philippe Sands QC wins Non Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year at British Book Awards". UCL Faculty of Laws. Retrieved 2021-05-26.


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