East West Street: On the Origins of ''Genocide'' and ''Crimes Against Humanity'', Paperback

Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction

A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich.

East West Street looks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men who simultaneously originated the ideas of ``genocide`` and ``crimes against humanity,`` both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural center of Europe, ``the little Paris of Ukraine,`` a city variously called Lemberg, Lwow, Lvov, or Lviv. It is also a spellbinding family memoir, as the author traces the mysterious story of his grandfather, as he maneuvered through Europe in the face of Nazi atrocities.

East West Street is a book that changes the way we look at the world, at our understanding of history and how civilization has tried to cope with mass murder.