On April 16, 2009, the Justice Department released never-before-seen secret memos describing, in graphic detail, the brutal interrogation techniques used by the CIA under the Bush administration's "war on terror." Now, for the first time, the key documents are compiled in one remarkable volume, showing that the United States government's top attorneys were instrumental in rationalizing acts of torture and cruelty, employing chillingly twisted logic and Orwellian reasoning to authorize what...

Lviv, Lwów, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history.City of Lions presents two essays, written more than half a century apart - but united by one city.Józef Wittlin's sensual and lyrical paean to his Lwów, written in exile, is a deep cry of love and pain for his city, where most people he knew have fled ...

The Fifth Crime tells two interwoven stories. One is the story of an idea whose time has come: the campaign to recognise ecocide - the destruction of the natural world - as an international crime, alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. Born in the shadow of Vietnam, and carried forward by a new generation, it is a legal revolution that seeks to place the protection of nature and the planet at the heart of justice.The second is a deeply pers...

'An indelible and enthralling work of moral witness' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE'These questions of memory and impunity are forever timely' FINANCIAL TIMES'An extraordinary achievement . . . I read with open mouth and thumping heart' STEPHEN FRYThe house at 38 Londres Street in Santiago, Chile, is home to the legacies of two men whose personal stories span continents, nationalities and decades of atrocity: Augusto P...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE DECADE AND WINNER OF:The Baillie Gifford PrizeThe JQ-Wingate Literary PrizeThe British Book Awards Non-fiction Book of the YearThe Hay Festival Medal for Prose'One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMESWhen he receives an invitation to deliv...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*FROM THE AUTHOR OF EAST WEST STREETAs Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and t...

The classic pacifist novel by a major Polish writer, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian mountains lead a simple life, much as they have always done. The modern world has yet to reach the inhabitants of this remote region of the Habsburg Empire. Among them is Piotr, a bandy-legged peasant, who wants nothing more from life than an official railway cap, a cottage, and a bride with a dowry. But then the First World Wa...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights' Elif Shafak'An essential account' Sunday Times'Powerful and persuasive . . . superb' Abdulrazak Gurnah'An urgent reminder that Britain's colonial rule isn't our past. It's our present' New Statesman'An...

This new and fully updated edition of Principles of International Environmental Law offers a comprehensive and critical account of one of the fastest growing areas of international law: the principles and rules relating to environmental protection. Introducing the reader to the key foundational principles, governance structures and regulatory techniques, Principles of International Environmental Law explores each of the major areas of international environmental regulation through substant...

WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV'If you read only one book about the war, this is the one to read.' -Henry Marsh, author of Do No Harm'Unforgettable. An immediate history of a cruel war and a personal chronicle of unbearable loss' -Simon Sebag-Montefiore, author of The WorldKilled by shrapnel as he served in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Olesya Khromeychuk's brot...

"The parallel with Nazi Germany's descent into immorality is impossible to escape. This may well be the most important book to emerge since 9/11." ―Robert Harris, bestselling author of ConclaveOn December 2, 2002 the US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed his name at the bottom of a document that listed eighteen techniques of interrogation—techniques that defied international definitions of torture. The Rumsfeld Memo authorized ...

The high civilian death toll in modern, protracted conflicts such as those in Syria or Iraq indicate the limits of international law in offering protections to civilians at risk. A recent conference of states convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross referred to 'an institutional vacuum in the area of international humanitarian law implementation'. Yet both international humanitarian law and the law of human rights establish a series of rights intended to protect civilians. ...