THE Treason Trial is now a byword in South Africa. It is three years old; its preparatory examination lasted fourteen months; it has been broken into several trials. It adjourns for months to ...
Rebecca West’s short factual book on William Joyce, better known as the pro-Hitler propagandist Lord Haw-Haw, first appeared in 1947, and has been resurrected by McNally editions in time for the 80th ...
Now, he would return East to stand trial for treason. Nearly 200 years later, the exact details of what became known as the Burr Conspiracy -- Aaron Burr's attempt to detach the Western states and ...
After the unhappy years of purges and treason trials, Rome welcomed its new emperor. The youngest son of the war hero, Germanicus, Gaius Caesar had grown up around soldiers and his nickname ...
(Courtesy of the National Archives of Canada) Charged with high treason for leading the North West Rebellion, Riel wanted to use the trial as a platform to vindicate himself. "I was not taken ...