When the Second World War came to an end, there was a commitment between various governments, including the government of Canada, to set up an international tribunal. This was not simply – as Winston ...

Although the Bush administration has stated that the interrogations techniques used at Guantanamo Bay came from the bottom up, British lawyer Philippe Sands disagrees. In his 2008 book, Torture Team, ...

Over the past five years the name Mohammed Al-Qahtani - Detainee 063 at Guantanamo - has been indelibly associated with the Bush Administration's efforts to justify ...

Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and the Crimes Against Humanity Weidenfeld & Nicholson/ Hachette India, London, 2016, rpt. 2017. Pb. Pp. 464.--- The Ratline: Love, Lies and ...

From a file in his Hampstead study, Philippe Sands draws out a thin scrap of paper. On it is a name and address, hastily written in pencil: “Miss Elsie Tilney, ‘Menuka’, Bluebell Road, Norwich, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. HISTORY East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity PHILIPPE SANDS WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, $32.99 "I have ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Philippe Sands is a Professor for Law in the University College, London with six videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1998 Public Affairs Event as a ...

Philippe Sands’s new book combines the story of the Chagos islanders, who were forced to leave their homeland by the British Government in the 1960s and 70s, with the surprisingly gripping narrative ...

When The Ratline author Philippe Sands asked Horst Wächter how his Nazi father managed to escape justice after World War II, the conversation went in a surprising direction. As he told Seán O'Rourke ...

Early in the morning of May 9, 1945, SS Gruppenführer Otto Wächter awakes near the Austrian city of Graz, with a serious problem to resolve. A few hours earlier, Germany has signed the definitive act ...

Caroline Sanderson worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The Bookseller’s From a file in his Hampstead study, Philippe Sands draws out ...