Ancient origins articles related to traitors in the sections of history, archaeology, human origins, unexplained, artifacts, ancient places and myths and legends. This article lists ten of the most notable traitors in world history, ranked by the severity of their. Explore releases from textbook traitors at discogs. In this video well try to answer the following questions. The biggest backstabbers in literary history, from peter. In the spy and the traitor, a tale of cold war espionage. Peter pettigrew not only sold out his friends to voldemort. The secret history of spies, saboteurs and fifth columnists by tate, tim isbn. Historians might raise a learned eyebrow at the writer bash dorans factual accuracy, but traitors is smart and funny, provocatively reimagining a moment when britain had to shake off the bombsite. Patriots, traitors and empires is an account of modern korean history, written from the point of view of those who fought to free korea from the domination of foreign empires. The traitor book series by sandra grey includes books traitor, tribunal, and trespass. With a spy somewhere in the british cabinet, traitors turns up the tension and keeps you guessing throughout. Wars may seem old fashioned and odd in the present world of cyber spying.
The greatest espionage story of the cold war kindle edition. The book narrates the astonishing tale of how britains secret intelligence service recruited a kgb officer named oleg gordievsky in 1974 and ran him as. League of american traitors by matthew landis goodreads. In the emergent nationstate of bhutan, the specter of the antinational traitor helped to transform the traditional view of loyalty based on social relations. See the complete traitor series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.
In 1945 london, feef, a vibrant british twentysomething is seduced by a cia agent into spying on her own country. A brilliant mix of past and present blended with humor and life or death situations made league of american traitors one the best books ive read this summer. A history of espionage and betrayal by michael smith. Blacks law dictionary defines treason as attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which one owes allegiance, either by making war against the state or by materially supporting its enemies. A history of collaboration in germanoccupied europe, 194045 is a. Whether a traitor betrays a country, principle, person or legion of sports fans, the act of betrayal isnt soon forgotten.
Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Submitted here are ten people who did their level best to see that america couldnt celebrate her official 234th birthday this week. Peter pettigrew not only sold out his friends to voldemort, he allowed sirius to take the fall for it while he himself lived a life of luxury as the weasleys prized pet rat. Recent history is stained by collaborators, informers, traitors, and the bloody purges and other acts of retribution against them. Finally, treason ranges from forgivable to the notoriously nefarious. She gave aid and comfort to the enemy at a time of war. A history of europe since 1945 by tony judt, the guns of august by barbara w. While retaining the traitor as twofaced, the book also insists that he was unambiguously doing gods work when around jesus. Everyone put your hands together for the most hideous traitor in wizarding history. A modern history, smiths apostasy perplexed and unnerved democrats after all, fdr, smiths successor as governor, had been the man who placed. Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it.
Apart from anything else, it is a parade of extraordinary characters and a banquet of elizabeth and jacobean prose. The secret history of spies, saboteurs and fifth columnists. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from textbook traitors at the discogs marketplace. Our coverage of modern history is weighted towards the great conflicts of the earlymid 20 th century. The worst acts of treason in american history from. And in some cases, the names of history s most notorious traitors.
In fact, the literary world is full of traitors, betrayers, colluders, deserters, and dirty doublecrossers. To all the jane fonda supporters who gripe about her being on this list. Prior to his treason, however, arnold compiled an impressive string of. Thanks for watching, and subscribe for new videos every weekday. Peter pettigrew, harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban everyone put your hands together for the most hideous traitor in wizarding history. On the wider picture, david cannadine recommends his best books on the british empire and judith flanders on life in the victorian age on themes related to the british empire, julia lovell recommends her best books on the opium war and david olusoga his on race and slavery.