Traitors & Turncoats: Twenty Tales of Treason, from Bendict Arnold to Ezra Pound - Couverture rigide

Crofton, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1848660111 ISBN 13 : 9781848660113

Editeur : Quercus Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' So wrote the English novelist E.M. Forster in 1951. People have betrayed their country, or their friends, for all kinds of different reasons - and one man's traitor may be another man's hero, especially as those found guilty of treason have usually faced only one penalty: death. Betrayal for money is perhaps the most despicable level of treachery - not for nothing is the term 'Judas' applied with such contempt; others have earned the mark of treason for rebelling against established authority. The stories in Traitors and Turncoats range from a British seaman in the Second World War who sold information to the Germans for a pittance, to the White Rose gang's defiant campaign against Hitler; from the recusant terrorism of Guy Fawkes, to the abolitionist fury of John Brown; from the unwitting treason of Lady Jane Grey, to the deadly perfidy of Mata Hari. Thoroughly researched and grippingly told, these tales of treachery embrace cowardice and cupidity, high tension and terrible tragedy. Tarpeia, Charles I, Genrikh Yagoda, Tarquin the Proud, Benedict Arnold, Vichy collaborators, Coriolanus, William Wordsworth, Duncan Scott-Ford, Alcibiades, John Brown, The White Rose (Sophie Scholl), Arminius, Rose Greenhow, July Plot (Hitler), Judas, Roger Casement, Lord Haw-Haw, King John, Easter Rising rebels, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Anne Boleyn, Mata Hari, Kim Philby, Lady Jane Grey, Norman Baillie-Stewart, Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano, Guy Fawkes, Pu Yi, Aldrich Ames.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A former editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia, Ian Crofton's authorial credits include Brewer's Britain and Ireland (2005) and the forthcoming 2nd edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (with John Ayto). He lives in North London with his family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Quercus Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848660111
• ISBN 13: 9781848660113
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible