Traitors and Turncoats: From Judas Iscariot to the Men Who Plotted to Kill Hitler - Hardcover

Coriolanus: The general who waged war on his native Rome.
Ephialtes: Betraying the Three Hundred at Thermopylae.
Judas: The greatest sinner in Dante's Hell.
Pierre Cauchon: The bishop who burnt Saint Joan.
Anne Boleyn: Put to death for treasonous acts of adultery.
Lady Jane Grey: Would-be usurper of the Tudors.
Guy Fawkes: The Gunpowder Plot's explosives expert.
Benedict Arnold: America's Hero-turned-villain.
Louis XVI: The king who conspired against his own country.
Rose O'Neal Greenhow: A Confederate spy in Washington.
Roger Casement: The British diplomat who died for Ireland.
Mata Hari: The exotic dancer accused of spying for the Germans.
Marshal Philippe Pétain: Head of the French collaborationist regime in the Second World War.
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw): Broadcasting for the Nazis.
Sophie Scholl: The White Rose and the German Resistance.
Ezra Pound: The poet who praised Mussolini.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: Electrocuted for espionage.
Kim Philby: Double agent par excellence.
Joe Dresnok: The GI who walked to North Korea.
Markus Wolf: The spymaster of Berlin.

A former editor-in-chief of The Guinness Encyclopedia, Ian Crofton's authorial credits include Brewer's Britain and Ireland (2005) and the forthcoming 2nd edition of Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable (with John Ayto). He lives in North London with his family.