Philippe Sands
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia
Philippe Sands KC is a renowned specialist in international law who has been involved in many significant cases including Guantanamo, Chagos, the Rohingya and Israel/Palestine. He is also an exceptional writer, whose first book for a general audience, “East West Street”, won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction in 2016.
Earlier this year, he published the final book in the loose trilogy which “East West Street” began. “38 Londres Street” is the riveting story of the events which led up to the 1998 arrest in London of Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Its title evoking an infamous street address in Santiago, it joins the dots between mass murder and crimes against humanity in South America, with the atrocities of the Nazi era and those of our own times.
We’re thrilled to welcome Philippe to Stroud Book Festival to discuss this brilliant blend of memoir, history, detective story and courtroom drama.
