This is the first serious historical study to use the newly released MI5 personal files on Roger Casement and John Amery.
Drawing on these and a wide range of different sources.
- Weale has been able to illuminate one of the darkest corners of recent British history.
- In comparing the careers of the last two British citizens to be executed by the state for their political beliefs. Both men were executed for High Treason. Casement in 1916 and Amery in 1945.
- Both men rejected the ideas at the heart of the Establishment and this rejection could not be tolerated by the British State.