THE MEANING OF TREASON
by West Rebecca
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London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1949. First Edition. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in the printed dustjacket. vii, 339 pp. A fine copy in the slightly aged dustjacket. FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPRESSIVE WORK. "The Meaning of Treason has for its framework a series of eyewitness accounts of the trials by civil courts or courts martial of William Joyce, John Amery, Walter Purdy, Thomas Haller Cooper, Norman Baillie-Stewart and Allan Nunn May, among those whose crimes were not committed under duress, and a number of younger men who were tempted or terrified into their offences while they were prisoners of war. The setting and atmosphere of these trials, the leading figures, the minor characters, and even the onlookers, are brought before us with a realism and penetration that seem to add a new dimension to descriptive writing. The legal issues and procedures are clarified, and sometimes criticised, with extraordinary skill."
"Treason is the measure of many things today. The rules defining it are among the few great rules of law of any society. Treason, by the scope of its definition and application,measures the effective difference between police state and democracy. Treason, by the frequency of its appearance, is a measure of the health and well-being of a society. Treason, because it is perhaps the most fundamental of crimes, is also a measure of our understanding of the deviant impulses and pressures that appear to make law necessary.
It is with the last of these things that Miss West is especially concerned in her study of twenty or so men brought to trial in England as traitors at the end of World War II. The result is a superb book contributing to law, to psychology, to journalism, and, with the greatest distinction, to the contemporary writing of the English language." H. Kalven, U. Chicago
"Treason is the measure of many things today. The rules defining it are among the few great rules of law of any society. Treason, by the scope of its definition and application,measures the effective difference between police state and democracy. Treason, by the frequency of its appearance, is a measure of the health and well-being of a society. Treason, because it is perhaps the most fundamental of crimes, is also a measure of our understanding of the deviant impulses and pressures that appear to make law necessary.
It is with the last of these things that Miss West is especially concerned in her study of twenty or so men brought to trial in England as traitors at the end of World War II. The result is a superb book contributing to law, to psychology, to journalism, and, with the greatest distinction, to the contemporary writing of the English language." H. Kalven, U. Chicago
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- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32264
- Title
- THE MEANING OF TREASON
- Author
- West Rebecca
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1949
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