THE GREAT CRIMES
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B79205
English Summary/英文概要： US rights are sold to Vicky Wilson at Knopf and it will be published by Knopf in 2016, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Judgment. We have just started the UK and international submissions and are handling it directly in Germany.
Five years ago Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture at the largely unknown university of the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv. The unexpected events that followed opened a trail into two secret stories, beginning and ending with the last day of the Nuremberg trial. The first is the hidden story of two Nuremberg prosecutors who discover, only at the end of the trial, that the man they are prosecuting has been responsible for the murder of their entire families in Nazi occupied Poland, in and around Lviv. The two prosecutors are remarkable men: Hersch Lauterpacht, a Cambridge academic and the father of modern human rights, who put “crimes against humanity” into international law and Rafael Lemkin, a Polish criminal prosecutor who invited the word “genocide”. The defendant is no less compelling a character: Hans Frank, Hitler’s personal lawyer and then Governor General of Nazi occupied Poland.
The second tale is personal to the author, a quest to understand the roots of his own longstanding interest in “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”, legal concepts that have dominated his work as an international lawyer. He traces the events that overwhelmed his mother’s family from 1939 to 1945, a true detective story that takes him halfway across the world.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Knopf将在2016年出版本书，恰逢纽伦堡审判70周年。
本书主要讲述了两个秘密故事——第一个故事讲述的是两位纽伦堡审判的检察官在审判最后阶段发现他们起诉的人在纳粹攻占波兰时参与了杀害他们全家的罪行。这两位检察官身份显赫。一位是Hersch Lauterpacht。他是剑桥大学的学者，现代人权之父，将“危害人类罪”引入了国际法；另一位Rafael Lemkin是波兰的刑事犯罪检察官。是他发明了“种族屠杀（genocide）这个词。”而被告则是臭名昭著的Hans Frank。他是希特勒的私人律师，后来在被纳粹占领的波兰担任总督。
在第二个?适轮校?作者试图弄清自己长久以来对“危害人类罪”和“种族屠杀”兴趣浓厚的原因。为了追踪1939年至1945年发生在母亲家庭中的各种事件，他几乎跑遍了全世界。(LYR)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Philippe Sands是伦敦大学学院的法学教授，也是一名执业律师。他经常出现在包括国际刑事法院和海牙国际法院等的国际法院之中。近年来参与了众多著名国际犯罪案件的审理，包括皮诺切特、刚果、南斯拉夫、卢旺达、伊拉克和关塔那摩。Philippe Sands is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister. He frequently appears before international courts, including the International Criminal Court and the World Court in The Hague, and has been involved in many of the most important international crime cases of recent years, including Pinochet, Congo, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq and Guantanamo.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：US rights are sold to Vicky Wilson at Knopf
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