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In the highest degree Odious : (Record no. 213624)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198259497 (Paperback)
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 940.53
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Simpson, A.W. Brian
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title In the highest degree Odious :
Remainder of title Detention without trial in wartime Britain /
Statement of responsibility, etc. A. W. Brian Simpson
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Reprinted 2005
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Clarendon
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1992
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxv, 453 pages
Dimensions 24 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount Rs. 4794.00
505 ## - Contents
Contents Abbreviations;<br/>1 The Invention of Executive Detention;<br/>2 Regulation 14B and its Progeny;<br/>3 Emergency Planning between the Wars;<br/>4The Commons Revolt;<br/>5 Detention during the Phoney War;<br/>6 The Defeat of Liberalism;<br/>2 Fascism and the Fears of 1940;<br/>8 The British Fifth Column;<br/>9 The Great Incarceration Begins;<br/>10 It Might Have Happened to You!;<br/>11 The Experience of Detention;<br/>12 The Bureaucracy under Stress;<br/>13 The Integrity of the Advisory Committee;<br/>14 The Early Challenges in the Courts;<br/>15 The Courts in Confusion;<br/>16 The Web of Suspicion;<br/>17 The Leading Cases in Context;<br/>18 The Declining Years of Regulation r8B;<br/>19 Death and Post Mortem;<br/>Appendices:<br/>I The Principal Texts;<br/>II Note on Sources;<br/>III Spy Trials;<br/>IV Tyler Kent and Anna Wolkoff;<br/>V Mosley's 'Reasons for Order';<br/>Bibliography;<br/>Index.<br/>
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 came to lament the use of a power which was, in his words, `in the highest degree odious'.<br/>This book provides the first comprehensive study of Regulation 18B and its precursor in the First World War, Regulation 14B. 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 between the Home Office and the Security Service which surrounded its use, the part played by individuals, by Parliament, and by the courts in restraining abuse of executive power, and the effect of detention upon the lives of individuals concerned, very few of whom constituted any threat to national security. Much of what was done was kept secret at the time, and even today the authorities continue to refuse access to many of the papers which have escaped deliberate destruction. This study is the first to attempt to penetrate the veil of secrecy and tell the story of the gravest invasion of civil liberty which has occurred in Britain this century.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification PB     NLS NLS General Stacks 30/05/2025 Purchased - Educational Supplies 7990.00 1 940.53 SIM 40190 20/09/2025 04/07/2025 30/05/2025 BOOKs Recommended by Mr. Kunal Ambasta