In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention Without Trial in Wartime Britain

by A.W. Brian Simpson

Book Overview

During the Second World War, just under two thousand British citizens were detained without charge, trial, or term set, under Regulation 18B of the wartime Defence Regulations. Most of these detentions took place in the summer of 1940, soon after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister, when belief in the existence of a dangerous Fifth Column was widespread. Churchill, at first an enthusiast for vigorous use of the powers of executive detention, later...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198259492
• ISBN13: 9780198259497
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 478 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"