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• Winner of Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Polemic of the Year 2015
• Winner of Paddy Power Political Book Awards: Polemic of the Year 2015.

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Geoffrey Robertson QC tackles the most controversial question that is still being asked about World War One.

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Geoffrey Robertson QC has had a distinguished career as a trial counsel and human rights advocate. He has been a UN war crimes judge, a counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, has defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and has won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple, and a visiting professor at the New College of Humanities in London. His book Crimes Against Humanity has been an inspiration for the global justice movement, his other books include Freedom, the Individual and the Law, The Tyrannicide Brief, The Statute of Liberty, Dreaming Too Loud and the acclaimed memoir The Justice Game. He has made many television and radio programmes, notably Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals, and has won a Freedom of Information award for his writing and broadcasting. In 2011 he received the New York State Bar Association's Award for 'Distinction in International Law and Affairs', and was Australian Humanitarian of the Year in 2014. In 2018 he was awarded an order of Australia (AO) for 'his distinguished service to the law and the legal profession as an international human rights lawyer and advocate for global civil liberties'.

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