Betrayal and Treason examines betrayals as violations of both trust
and loyalty. It offers a typology based on membership in or out of
collectives within the contexts of secrecy/non-secrecy. The book
shows that betrayals include such categories as espionage,
whistle-blowing, infidelity, political turncoating, conversions,
collaboration with occupying forces, informers, mutinies,
defections, strike-breakers, professional, intellectual, and
international betrayals, human rights violations, surveillance,
assassinations, and state sponsored terror. Each one of the
categories is presented with enticing, stimulating, and appropriate
real-life illustrations and narratives.The book focuses on treason,
examines diverse cultures (European countries, Israel, Canada, the
United States) and such periods as World War II, the conquest of
Mexico, and looks at such figures as Benedict Arnold, Ezra Pound,
Edward VIII, Malinche, Vindkun Quisling, Lord Haw Haw, Tokyo Rose,
and a host of others. Since World War II is an excellent period
through which one can examine issues of treason, and since there
has been such an increased interest in World War II, this book
places a particular emphasis on that period and war. Betrayal and
Treason is original in its conceptual framework, and in its breadth
and depth of coverage. Yet judging by the amount of books published
on similar topics in the past, there can hardly be a doubt that
there has always been a genuine demand and "hunger" for an
inclusive and integrative book such as this one. By offering a new
and interpretive framework for betrayals, this book can serve both
scholars and lay people alike in gaining a much better
understanding of such a complex and fascinating behavior as
betrayal.
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