This compelling work explores the profound experiences of persecution and exile as seen through the interconnected lives of Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin. All were displaced and hunted to death by fascism. Their literary brilliance, tumultuous lives and tragic ends continue to captivate the imagination and inspire. By bringing together the extraordinary stories of Zweig, Roth and Benjamin for the first time in a single overview, Richard Harper offers a thought-provoking examination of the meaning and feeling of displacement, so highly relevant to the widespread and challenging issues of persecution and migration today.

Having studied law at Magdalen College Oxford, Richard Harper practised as a barrister and then sat as a family law judge. During his judicial career he has written on medical treatment and the law relating to the protection of children and vulnerable adults. He now writes and lectures on the overall law relating to the protection of children, and DISPLACEMENT is his first work of nonfiction outside of the law. The connecting theme of Harper's writing is examining injustice and how it may be ameliorated. He lives with his family in West London.