The Last Colony – Philippe Sands (Ukrainian Edition)

This is the Ukrainian edition of The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy by Philippe Sands, the international lawyer and author of East West Street. It is part courtroom drama, part personal journey, and a powerful book about how modern international law is made.

In the 1960s Britain secretly agreed to give the United States a military base on Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago. To do so it created a new colony, the “British Indian Ocean Territory”, and forcibly removed the islanders. Among them was Liseby Elysé, then twenty and pregnant with her first child. For four decades Mauritius fought to get the islands back, and Sands himself took part in the case that reached the International Court of Justice in The Hague in 2018, where the fate of a woman who left home with a single bag was weighed against the interests of empires.

For readers interested in history, justice and colonial legacies, and especially relevant for Ukrainians who know first-hand what it means when a powerful state decides that international law does not apply to it.

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Edition details

• Language: Ukrainian
• Author: Philippe Sands
• Publisher: Old Lion Publishing House (Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva)
• Year: 2026
• Pages: 288
• Format: 145×200 mm
• ISBN: 978-966-448-546-0