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PHILIPPE SANDS (b.1960)

Lot 79
12.07.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 79 | PHILIPPE SANDS (b.1960)
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£ 1 500 – 2 000
PHILIPPE SANDS (b.1960)
East West Street. On the origins of genocide and crimes against humanity. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016.
First British edition of Sands’ intensely personal ‘part historical detective story, part family history, part legal thriller’. The book is extensively annotated by the author, with over 1230 words appearing on 52 pages. Although the book’s subtitle suggests that this is a dry legal tome – and the author annotates that his own brother thought it ‘a TERRIBLE turn off’ – this multi-layered book is anything but. In 2010, Sands was invited to deliver a lecture on genocide and crimes against humanity by the law faculty of the University of Lviv, Ukraine. In his research, Sands discovered that the two men who did more than any others to create the modern system of international justice, Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin, had both studied there: ‘How remarkable that in preparing a journey to Lviv to talk about the origins of international law, I learned that the city itself was intimately connected to those origins’ (p.xxiv). Moreover, Sands’ own grandfather had been born in Lviv, and this fact, together with the discovery of a series of extraordinary historical coincidences, triggered Sands to write this fascinating narrative of the personal lives of individuals and families overwhelmed by the events of the Second World War, interwoven with the gripping story of how modern international law was established. Sands’ annotations bring the book right up-to-date with his comments on the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, his proposal for a new Nuremberg-style tribunal in light of these events, and an invitation for the buyer to a special event later in the year. The book has been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

Octavo. Original black cloth, silver lettering to spine (upper corners lightly bumped), pictorial dustjacket (jacket faintly creased at head of spine and at corners).
Place of origin:United Kingdom
Auction house category:Printed books
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