Philippe Sands is a writer and international lawyer who works to curtail and punish mass murder by whichever term is used: genocide or crimes against humanity.
And the author's stint in a Ukrainian university led him down the trail of two men, both lawyers who studied at the same university.
They both took radically different pathways to get to the same place: a body of law to prosecute the likes of the Nazis who committed genocide in World War II. East West Street is Sands' book. He visits with the highlights of an arduous yet redemptive story.