What an incredible book. I went in expecting a dry history and what I got was so much more. Thank you for approving this title for me and I'm sorry it has taken so long for me to review.

A fascinating book that I couldn't put down. Highly recommended.

I wasn't expecting a book on the legal terms of genocide and crimes against humanity to feel compulsively readable. The triple biographies of Leon, Lemkin, and Lauterpacht from Lemberg put the legal issues into extremely personal detail as Sands traces how the context created two terms that emerge for the Nuremberg Trials. I thought I knew more about genocide and crimes against humanity than I did and now I feel very informed from a book that rarely dragged or felt like it delved into unnecessary detail.