Roger Casement
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
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Few lives in modern history burn with as much contradictory brilliance as that of Roger Casement — British consul, humanitarian crusader, Irish revolutionary, and executed traitor. Brian Inglis's authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable and turbulent journey of this Anglo-Irish knight who rose to international fame by exposing the brutal colonial atrocities inflicted upon the Congo and Peruvian Amazon, only to be hanged by the very empire he once served after his ill-fated role in the 1916 Easter Rising. With meticulous research and a clear-eyed narrative voice, Inglis reconstructs the full arc of Casement's life — from his passionate dispatches from the heart of darkness to his clandestine dealings with Germany on behalf of Irish independence. Inglis writes with the authority of a seasoned historian and the sensitivity of a fellow Irishman, illuminating the profound tensions between duty, identity, conscience, and empire that defined the Edwardian age. The biography also confronts the controversy surrounding Casement's Black Diaries, documents alleged by the British government to detail homosexual encounters, whose authenticity remains one of the great disputed questions of twentieth-century history. A portrait of a man whose moral courage in Africa and South America stands in sharp contrast to his condemnation at home, Roger Casement leaves the reader questioning where the line between heroism and treason truly lies.
Author: Brian Inglis
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few lives in modern history burn with as much contradictory brilliance as that of Roger Casement — British consul, humanitarian crusader, Irish revolutionary, and executed traitor. Brian Inglis's authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable and turbulent journey of this Anglo-Irish knight who rose to international fame by exposing the brutal colonial atrocities inflicted upon the Congo and Peruvian Amazon, only to be hanged by the very empire he once served after his ill-fated role in the 1916 Easter Rising. With meticulous research and a clear-eyed narrative voice, Inglis reconstructs the full arc of Casement's life — from his passionate dispatches from the heart of darkness to his clandestine dealings with Germany on behalf of Irish independence. Inglis writes with the authority of a seasoned historian and the sensitivity of a fellow Irishman, illuminating the profound tensions between duty, identity, conscience, and empire that defined the Edwardian age. The biography also confronts the controversy surrounding Casement's Black Diaries, documents alleged by the British government to detail homosexual encounters, whose authenticity remains one of the great disputed questions of twentieth-century history. A portrait of a man whose moral courage in Africa and South America stands in sharp contrast to his condemnation at home, Roger Casement leaves the reader questioning where the line between heroism and treason truly lies.