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(0)Philippe Sands
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The life and mysterious death of Otto W�achter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"--
Baron Otto von W�achter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the British,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A resilient Turkish writer's inspiring account of his imprisonment that provides crucial insight into political censorship amidst the global rise of authoritarianism.
The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware...
The destiny I put down in my novel has become mine. I am now under arrest like the hero I created years ago. I await the decision that will determine my future, just as he awaited his. I am unaware of my destiny, which has perhaps already been decided, just as he was unaware...