In the Highest Degree Odious: Detention without Trial in Wartime Britain - Softcover
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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. At first, Churchill was an enthusiast for vigorous use of the powers of executive detention. He later came to lament the use of a power which was, in his words, "in the highest degree odious." Although many detainees were soon released, a considerable number remained in custody for prolonged periods--some for the duration of the war. This book provides the first comprehensive study of this Regulation and its history. Based on extensive use of primary sources, it describes the complex history of wartime executive detention: the purposes which it served, the administrative procedures and safeguards employed, the conflicts which surrounded its use, and the effect of detention upon the lives of individuals concerned, few of whom constituted any threat to national security.
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comprehensive and meticulously researched book (Observer)
a detailed and fascinating narrative ... Professor Simpson has told a tale of great exemplary interest, based upon distinguished and pertinacious scholarship. We are all in his debt. (Cambridge Law Journal)
the most informative, detached and sceptical account of the security background to the crisis of 1940 (Intelligence and National Security Review)
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A. W. Brian Simpson is at University of Michigan.
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- PublisherOxford University Press, USA
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0198259492
- ISBN 13 9780198259497
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages480
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