Philippe Sands

The moving, inspiring David-and-Goliath true story of freedom and justice involving one tiny nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa, and the extraordinary woman, a descendant of slaves, who dared to take on the Crown and the United Kingdom--and win a historic victory In 1973, on the Chagos Islands off the coast of Africa, Liseby Elyse--twenty years old, newly married and four months pregnant--was, rounded up, along with the entire population of Chagos, and ordered to pack her belongings and leave her beloved homeland by ship or slowly starve; the British had cut off all food supplies. Some two thousand people who had lived on the islands of Chagos for generations, many the direct descendants of enslaved people brought there from Mozambique and Madagascar in the 18th century by the French and British, were deported overnight from their island paradise as the result of a secret decision by the British government to provide the United States with land to construct a military base in the Indian Ocean. For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos. Three decades into the battle, Philippe Sands became the lead lawyer in the case, designing its legal strategy and assembling a team of lawyers from Mauritius, Belgium, India, Ukraine, and the U. S. When the case finally reached the World Court in the Hague, Sands chose as the star witness the diminutive Liseby Elyse, now sixty-five years old, and instructed her to appear before the court, speaking in Kreol, to tell the fourteen international judges her story of forced exile. The fate of Chagos rested on her testimony. The judges faced a landmark decision: Would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would Liseby Elyse sway the judges and open the door, allowing her and her fellow Chagossians to return home--or would they remain exiled forever? Philippe Sands writes of his own journey into international law and that of the World Court in the Hague, and of the extraordinary decades-long quest of Liseby Elyse, and the people of Chagos, in their fight for justice and a free and fair return to the idyllic land of their birth.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights' Elif Shafak'An essential account' Sunday Times'Powerful and persuasive . . . superb' Abdulrazak Gurnah 'An urgent reminder that Britain's colonial rule isn't our past. It's our present' New Statesman'An important [book]' Observer'Elegant, moving and profoundly informative' The ScotsmanThrough one woman's fight for justice, the award-winning author of East West Street exposes the shocking events that marked the 1965 establishment of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Written with Sands' characteristic expertise, insight and thrilling storytelling, The Last Colony lays bare the brutal legacy of colonial rule, the devastating impact of Britain's grip on its last colony in Africa and the ongoing struggle to right a historic wrong.

Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays, written more than half a century apart - but united by one city. Józef Wittlin's sensual and lyrical paean to his Lwów, written in exile, is a deep cry of love and pain for his city, where most people he knew have fled or been killed. Philippe Sands' finely honed exploration of what has been lost and what remains interweaves a lawyer's love of evidence with the emotional heft of a descendant of Lviv. With an illuminating preface by Eva Hoffman and stunning new photographs by Diana Matar, City of Lions is a powerful and melancholy evocation of central Europe in the twentieth century, with a special resonance for today's troubled continent.

Vi snakker ofte som om kolonialismen tilhører fortiden. Men kolonier finnes fortsatt. Som Chagosøyene i Det indiske hav: På 1960-tallet ble øyene erklært som britisk koloni, gjort om til militærbase, og hele befolkningen ble deportert. En av dem var Liseby Elysé. Hun var tjue år gammel, nygift og gravid med sitt første barn da hun ble tvangsflyttet - det eneste hun fikk ta med seg, var en koffert. Siden har hun vært blant lederne i chagossernes kamp for å kunne vende hjem. Philippe Sands er en av Storbritannias fremste sakprosaforfattere, kjent for kritikersuksesser som Tilbake til Lemberg og Skyggespillet. Men han er også menneskerettighetsadvokat, og har i over et tiår arbeidet med saken om Chagosøyene. Den siste kolonien er en fortelling om de katastrofale konsekvensene av britenes herredømme over deres aller siste koloni i Afrika. Men også om oppkomsten det internasjonale rettssystemet i etterkrigsårene - og om én kvinnes kamp for rettferdighet. Den siste kolonien er gripende rettssalsdrama og et enestående stykke historieskriving: En utforsking av den internasjonale rettens nødvendighet, i en verden der retten er stadig mer truet.

A tale of Nazi lives, mass murder, love, Cold War espionage, a mysterious death in the Vatican, and the Nazi escape route to Per n's Argentina,"the Ratline"--from the author of the internationally acclaimed, award-winning East West Street. "Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable." --John le Carr , internationally renowned bestselling author Baron Otto von W chter, a lawyer, husband, and father, was also a senior SS officer and war criminal, indicted for the murder of more than a hundred thousand Poles and Jews. Although he was given a new identity and life via "the Ratline" to Argentina, the escape route taken by thousands of other Nazis, W chter and his plan were cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome. In the midst of the burgeoning Cold War, was he being recruited by the Americans or by the Soviets--or perhaps both? Or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes--or by both? With the cooperation of W chter's son Horst, who believes his father to have been "a good man," award-winning author Philippe Sands draws on a trove of family correspondence to piece together W chter's extraordinary life before and during the war, his years evading justice, and his sudden, puzzling death. A riveting work of history, The Ratline is part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, and part Cold War espionage thriller.

After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes sought to end the scourge of colonialism. But how committed was Britain? In the 1960s, its colonial instinct ignited once more: a secret decision was taken to offer the US a base at Diego Garcia, one of the islands of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, create a new colony (the ’British Indian Ocean Territory’) and deport the entire local population. One of those inhabitants was Liseby Elyse, twenty years old, newly married, expecting her first child. One suitcase, no pets, the British ordered, expelling her from the only home she had ever known. For four decades the government of Mauritius fought for the return of Chagos, and the past decade Philippe Sands has been intimately involved in the cases. In 2018 Chagos and colonialism finally reached the World Court in The Hague. As Mauritius and the entire African continent challenged British and American lawlessness, fourteen international judges faced a landmark decision: would they rule that Britain illegally detached Chagos from Mauritius? Would they open the door to Liseby Elyse and her fellow Chagossians returning home - or exile them forever? Taking us on a disturbing journey across international law, THE LAST COLONY illuminates the continuing horrors of colonial rule, the devastating impact of Britain’s racist grip on its last colony in Africa, and the struggle for justice in the face of a crime against humanity. It is a tale about the making of modern international law and one woman’s fight for justice, a courtroom drama and a personal journey that ends with a historic ruling.

Den 13. juli 1949 døde Alfredo Reinhardt på Santo Spiritosykehuset i Vatikanet. Dødsårsaken ble oppgitt som alvorlig leversvikt. Men pasienten var innlagt under falskt navn. I virkeligheten het han Otto von Wächter: høytstående SS-offiser, tidligere guvernør for Galicia i dagens Ukraina og ettersøkt for drapet på over 100 000 mennesker. Hva brakte ham til Roma? Og hvorfor døde han? Den fremstående menneskerettighetsjuristen Philippe Sands debuterte som sakprosaforfatter med den internasjonale kritikersuksessen Tilbake til Lemberg i 2016. Der fortalte Sands historien om bestefaren Leo, som rømte fra Lemberg akkurat i tide til å unngå nazistenes jødeforfølgelser, og om den internasjonale juridiske prosessen for å straffe tyskernes forbrytelser etter krigen. Det var under arbeidet med debutboka at Philippe Sands kom i kontakt med Horst Wächter. En vennlig gammel mann bosatt i et falleferdig slott i Østerrike - og sønn av nazilederen som under krigen hadde hatt ansvaret for forfølgelsen av Sands' slektninger i Lemberg: Otto von Wächter. Da SS-mannen døde i Roma sommeren 1949, var han på flukt til Argentina - assistert av kardinal Alois Hudal, som etter krigen hjalp både Josef Mengele og Adolf Eichmann til Latin-Amerika. Av sønnen Horst får Philippe Sands tilgang til et unikt materiale av brev, dagbøker og dokumenter etter Otto von Wächter. I Skyggespillet kan Philippe Sands dermed for første gang fortelle historien om de tyske fluktnettverkene i etterkrigsårene innenfra, og om den storpolitiske dragkampen rundt flyktningene - i et Europa stadig mer preget av den kalde krigen. Men arkivet ga også tilgang til en annen verden: Livet i en ledende nazi-familie både før, under og etter krigen. Med kjærligheten mellom Otto og kona Charlotte - hun som etter krigen gjorde alt for å redde ektemannen, og familiens ære. Og med spørsmålene til sønnen Horst, som aldri har gitt opp tanken på faren som «en god mann». Hva innhentet Otto von Wächter til slutt? Skyggespille

The Sunday Times bestselling new book by the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and author of EAST WEST STREET - a historical detective story that sets out to uncover the truth behind what happened to leading Nazi Otto von Wächter

Filipp Sends - izvestnyj britanskij publitsist, jurist-mezhdunarodnik, professor prava, prinimavshij uchastie vo mnogikh sudebnykh protsessakh po voennym prestuplenijam. Sends - prezident britanskogo PEN-kluba, populjarnyj kommentator programm VVS i CNN, avtor 16 knig i laureat mnogikh premij, pjat iz kotorykh on poluchil imenno za knigu "Vostochno-zapadnaja ulitsa". Issledovanie sobstvennykh kornej vedet avtora ot Lvova-Lemberga v Njurnberg, ot Njurnbergskogo protsessa - v nashi dni, ibo sami ponjatija chelovechnosti i beschelovechnosti naveki okrasheny Kholokostom i prigovorom, prozvuchavshim na Njurnbergskom protsesse. I ottogo chto bolshaja istorija tak tesno perepletaetsja s istoriej semi, chelovecheskoe v nej - utverzhdaetsja." Gigantskaja eruditsija, pytlivost uchenogo, uvlechennost i tvorcheskoe voobrazhenie - vot chto pozvolilo Filippu Sendsu rasputat slozhnejshij klubok, v kotorom proshloe semi pereplelos s evropejskoj istoriej i razvitiem pravovykh ponjatij". - Majkl Shejbon"Grandioznoe proizvedenie... Gluboko lichnoe povestvovanie, napisannoe s gnevom i ljubovju". - Dzhon Le Karre"Vozmozhno, samaja vazhnaja kniga, napisannaja posle tragedii 11 sentjabrja". - Robert Kharris.

Under SS-officeren Otto von Wächters tid som guvernör i Galizien skickades hundratusentals judar och polacker till en säker död. Efter freden 1945 jagade segrarmakterna honom, brottsrubriceringen var massmord. Men von Wächter lyckades fly undan rättvisan. Först till alperna, där han höll sig gömd i tre år, sedan till Vatikanen, där han dog 1949 under mystiska omständigheter precis innan han skulle fly till Argentina. Philippe Sands följer upp mästerverket Vägen till Nürnberg med en berättelse som också den skildrar jakten på rättvisa efter andra världskriget. Med hjälp av dagböcker och brev återskapar han Otto von Wächters uppgång och fall, men lyckas med skickligt detektivarbete även fånga gåtan kring nazistens död, som hämtad ur en förstklassig spionroman.

Da den framstående menneskerettsjuristen Philippe Sands ble invitert til å forelese i Lviv i Ukraina i 2010, ante han ikke at besøket ville bli begynnelsen på en lang reise inn i egen familiehistorie - og inn i de mest avgjørende hendelsene i hele det 20. århundre. Sands var nysgjerrig på Lviv: en vakker, gammel by som pleide å bære navnet Lemberg, og som hadde vært et sentrum for den jødiske kulturen Europa. Her hadde bestefaren hans vokst opp - den elegante og tilkneppede Léon, han som alltid omga seg med så mye taushet, så mange spørsmål. Det Sands ikke visste, var at Lemberg også hadde vært opphavsstedet til Rafael Lemkin og Hersch Lauterpach - to unge jødiske flykninger og jurister som under krigen arbeidet på spreng hver for seg for å utvikle et lovapparat som kunne gjøre det mulig å forfølge og straffe nazismens overgripere. Under krigen var Lemberg også Hans Franks by: Nazismens viktigste jurist, en av det tredje rikets sjefstenkere, beryktet under krigen for sitt ufattelig brutale styre i det okkuperte Polen og Ukraina. Sands jakt på sannheten om sin familie og byen som forsvant, sender ham halve jorden rundt, før tilfeldigheter og utrolige forbindelser fører ham tilbake til Nürnberg og rettsprosessen etter krigen - der Lemkins og Lauterpachts juridiske arbeid endelig skulle stå sin prøve, og Hans Frank skulle få møte sin skjebne. Tilbake til Lemberg er en uforglemmelig blanding av historisk detektivarbeid og personlig beretning - og en sterk meditasjon over hvordan minner, forbrytelser og skyld kan etterlate arr gjennom generasjoner.

När juristen Philippe Sands får en inbjudan att föreläsa i Lviv i Ukraina öppnas en okänd dörr till hans familjs historia. Med utgångspunkt i morfaderns flykt undan nazisterna inleds en andlös resa som tar läsaren från det forna Lemberg till rättegångens Nürnberg. Prisbelönta "Vägen till Nürnberg" är en berättelse om folkmord, familjehemligheter och drömmen om rättvisa. För att se ett samtal mellan författaren och hans svenska förläggare, se: https://youtu.be/Yvcg5B84zu4”En monumental bedrift.” John le Carré

Da juristen Philippe Sands får en indbydelse til at forelæse i Lviv i Ukraine, åbnes en ukendt dør til hans families historie. Med udgangspunkt i morfarens flugt for nazisterne begynder han en undersøgelse, som fører læseren til Lemberg før 2. verdenskrig, til forbryderprocessen i Nürnberg efter krigen og op til nutiden. Hvad skete der familien, som blev hjemme, da nazisterne og den ukendte generalguvernør Hans Frank tog magten? Den prisbelønnede "Fra Øst-Vest-Gaden til Nürnberg" er en uforglemmelig blanding af detektivarbejde, erindringer og en beskrivelse af, hvordan minder, forbrydelser og skyld kan efterlade ar gennem generationer.

This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection. Introducing the reader to the key foundational principles, governance structures and regulatory techniques, Principles of International Environmental Law explores each of the major areas of international environmental regulation through substantive chapters, including climate change, atmospheric protection, oceans and freshwater, biodiversity, chemicals and waste regulation. The ever-increasing overlap with other areas of international law is also explored through examination of the inter-linkages between international environmental law and other areas of international regulation, such as trade, human rights, humanitarian law and investment law. Incorporating the latest developments in treaty and case law for key areas of environmental regulation, this text is an essential reference and textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners of international environmental law.

This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection. Introducing the reader to the key foundational principles, governance structures and regulatory techniques, Principles of International Environmental Law explores each of the major areas of international environmental regulation through substantive chapters, including climate change, atmospheric protection, oceans and freshwater, biodiversity, chemicals and waste regulation. The ever-increasing overlap with other areas of international law is also explored through examination of the inter-linkages between international environmental law and other areas of international regulation, such as trade, human rights, humanitarian law and investment law. Incorporating the latest developments in treaty and case law for key areas of environmental regulation, this text is an essential reference and textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, academics and practitioners of international environmental law.