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A Case to Answer: The story of Australia's first European war crimes prosecution
Contributor(s): Bevan, David (Author)

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ISBN: 1862543232     ISBN-13: 9781862543232
Publisher: Wakefield Press
OUR PRICE: $28.50  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: July 1994
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Australia & New Zealand - General
- Law | Criminal Procedure
- Law | Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Dewey: 349.405
LCCN: 94185903
Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.11" W x 7.81" L (0.67 lbs) 280 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 1990's
- Cultural Region - Australian
- Cultural Region - Eastern Europe
Features: Illustrated
 
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On Australia Day 1990, a seventy-three-year-old man was plucked from the Adelaide suburbs and accused of helping massacre nearly nine hundred men, women and children in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

The trial of Ivan Polyukhovich stretched across the world as witnesses gathered to testify from Ukraine, Israel and North America. Australian investigators, lawyers, magistrates and judges had to deal with memories half a century old, and the customs and language of an isolated Soviet village that knew nothing of western criminal justice.

A Case to Answer is compelling courtroom drama. David Bevan describes the events that led to Polyukhovich's arrest, his near fatal shooting, and the extraordinary manoeuvrings as Australia's legal system is tested to the limit.

 
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