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38 Londres Street

by Philippe Sands

Random House2025ISBN 9781474620765

3 of 3 critics positive

9 reviews: 1 rave, 2 positives; 6 not stating a verdict in public

What the critics said

Rave
“tells the thrilling, often personal story”

The dictator who went on holiday to Britain – and ended up in prison

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Positive
“remarkable book uncovers the link between Chilean dictator Pinochet and a notorious SS commander”

Philippe Sands’s remarkable book uncovers the link between Chilean dictator Pinochet and a notorious SS commander Walther Rauff

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Positive
“A human rights lawyer skilfully gathers the threads”

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands review – Pinochet and the Nazis

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Verdict not stated
“in pursuit of Pinochet and a Nazi war criminal”

38 Londres Street — in pursuit of Pinochet and a Nazi war criminal

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“the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious”

Andy Beckett · An Efficient Man: A Nazi in Chile

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Verdict not stated
“brings to light the struggle to hold Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and former Nazi Walther Rauff accountable”

Getting away with it … sort of. How a dictator and a fugitive Nazi advanced international human rights law

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Verdict not stated

The friendship of a Chilean dictator and a Nazi war criminal

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“The parallel stories of mass murderers”

38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands: The parallel stories of mass murderers

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Verdict not stated
“intertwines the stories of Augusto Pinochet, a high-ranking Nazi official and his own family”

Review | A human rights lawyer’s personal quest for international justice

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