# Traitors

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- Book: [Traitors](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-crofton/traitors) ([Traitors.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-crofton/traitors.md))
- Authors: [Ian Crofton](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-crofton)
- Publisher: quercus
- ISBN: 978-15-2944-001-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2025-07-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'If I had to choose between betraying my friend and betraying my country, I hope I should have the courage to betray my country.' E. M. FORSTER People have betrayed their country, or their friends, for all kinds of different reasons - conscience, conviction, love, as well as pride, vengeance and greed. The stories in Traitors range from the faith-inspired terrorism of Guy Fawkes to the non-violent White Rose gang of students who defied Hitler; from patriotic rebels such as Roger Casement to ambivalent ideologues such as Lord Haw-Haw and the Cambridge spy Kim Philby; and from femmes fatales such as Mata Hari to unwitting victims such as Lady Jane Grey. Those found guilty of treason have usually faced the same penalty: death. But as these thoroughly researched and grippingly told tales of treachery show, one man's traitor may sometimes be another man's hero . . .