ASIN: B073XKFGT1
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 496
Brian Inglis writes in considerable depth the biography of a patriot who lived and died in England. Inglis is giving Roger Casement the attention he deserves, as he displays how he achieved an international reputation three times, sacrificing his life on the third. Casement was born in Dublin and bought up a Protestant, and although he caused a sensation in England through his reports that depicted the cruelty of both the Peruvian Amazon Company and the Congo Free State, in 1913 he devoted time to exploring the history of his home country. A year after the First World War broke out however, Casement made a fatal choice... He went to Germany and secured a treaty that gave formal recognition to Ireland’s right to independent nationhood. It was this decision that resulted in his hanging, after being captured by the British on his return to Ireland. In this brilliant biography, Inglis ...
