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Torture Team

Uncovering War Crimes in the Land of the Free

Torture Team( )
Author: Sands, Philippe
ISBN:978-0-14-103132-3
Publication Date:Aug 2009
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $26.95
Book Description:

'May well be the best bit of contemporary investigative journalism you will read . . . follows a paper trail and nails the truth'Rod Liddle, Sunday Times Gripping, furious and very serious indeed'John le Carre After 9/11, the Bush's administration declared that it would have to work through 'the dark side'. And they did- the administration turned its back on the rules and on America's commitment to the dignity of every human person. It...
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Sands, Philippe (Author)
Philippe Sands was born in 1960 in London. He is a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving his B.A. in 1982 and his LLM, first class honours in 1983. He finished his postgraduate studies at Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School. He has held positions at numerous distinguished universities around the world. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985. He has written numerous academic and general nonfiction books, newspaper articles, book reviews, and more. His books include Lawless World, and Torture Team. In 2016, he won the Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, for East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity.

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