Ebook: Treason of the heart: from Thomas Paine to Kim Philby

Treason of the Heart is an account of British people who took up foreign causes. Not mercenaries, then, but ideologues. Almost all were what today we would call radicals or activists, who thought they knew better than whichever bunch of backward or oppressed people it was that they had come to save. Usually they were applying to others what they saw as the benefits of their culture, and so obviously meritorious was their culture that they were prepared to be violent in imposing it. Some genuinely hated their own country, however, and saw themselves promoting abroad the values their own retrogr.;The revolution of the world -- The mighty projects of the times -- "The god of my idolatry" -- "We are all Greeks" -- That sound that crashes in the tyrant's ear -- Imperishable and international poetry -- Pasha Inglisi -- "Those poor Armenians" -- "To heal this ancient nation" -- "Every Englishman's idea of nature's gentleman" -- Germany calling -- There are many wicked men in the world.