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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC F.A. Mann: A Memoir by Geoffrey Lewis
Francis (FA) Mann was among the most brilliant of the German-Jewish émigrés who came to Britain in the 1930s to escape persecution in Hitlers Germany. Born and educated in Germany he was in time to become one of Britains most distinguished international lawyers; a scholar of English German and international law a practitioner admired for his skill and tenacity and the author of countless books and articles on international and domestic law whose views were very much shaped by his personal experiences and who in turn helped to shape international law in the 20th century. Mann enjoyed a traditional German education and was set for a career in the law when Hitler came to power in 1933. Both Mann and his wife Lore immediately moved to England where Mann in due course established a legal practice which in time merged with that of Herbert Smith. It was here that he became both an original and enterprising legal practitioner and influential legal writer with a global reputation as a jurist steeped in the civil and common law - a true cosmopolitan lawyer. This book is a personal recollection by someone who knew him as a friend and professional colleague for more than 30 years.