ARGONAUT BOOKS

On the face of it, Felix Kersten, Kawashima Yoshiko, Friedrich Weinreb, seem to have little in common - aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains. All three were mythmakers, larger-than-life storytellers, for whom the truth was beside the point. All three figures have been vilified and mythologised, out of a never-ending need, Ian Buruma argues, to see history, and particularly war, and above all World War II, as a neat tale of angels and devils. In telling their often-self-invented stories, 'The Collaborators' off...Read More