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.
The stories in Traitors & 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.
