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Invited to give a lecture in the city of Lviv, the lawyer Philippe Sands finds that it links the lives of the two men who created the legal ideas of crimes against humanity and genocide, the Nazi governor who ruled the city in the war, and his own grandfather. A history and a family memoir.

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Winners)
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.

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