Publish Date: 2016 Awards: 2017 Non-fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards; 2016 Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
In this moving and gripping book, Philippe Sands sets off on a quest to uncover his own family’s painful past whilst investigating the origins of international human rights at the Nuremberg trial. Prompted by an invitation to deliver a lecture in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, this book is both profoundly personal and unearths the universal truth behind the foundations of international law.