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The World Turned Upside Down – The British Civil Wars 1638-1651

Changing Sides – Turn Coats

29 min • 21 juli 2023

“Turncoat!” The word creates immediate images of traitors, renegades and defectors… here is a person who places self-interest above the well-being or safety of comrades-in-arms, and so switches sides irrespective of the resulting harm it does to the Cause. Betrayed comrades react with contempt and demand harsh sanctions, even a gruesome traitor’s death, while the ... Read more

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