A knight of the realm who turned traitor, and was hanged
Roger Casement rejected the Empire, allied with Germany and, as Roland Philipps’s superb study Broken Archangel shows, paid dearly
Roger Casement rejected the Empire, allied with Germany and, as Roland Philipps’s superb study Broken Archangel shows, paid dearly
Rick Stroud’s I Am Not Afraid of Looking into the Rifles, about women who resisted the Germans, tells us little new and much that’s wrong
Isabel Kershner’s arresting study of Israeli politics and society shows how deeply divided it has become – especially under Netanyahu’s rule
Daniel Finkelstein explores his parents’ and grandparents’ wartime experiences from concentration camps to gulags in this superb memoir