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David Pryce-Jones
was born in Vienna in 1936. He studied modern history at Magdalen College, Oxford. His career has included spells teaching creative writing in Iowa and in California, as well as being a special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph covering international assignments including the Middle East wars of 1967 and 1973. His publications include nine novels, and twelve works of non-fiction. Among the latter are The Closed Circle and The Strange Death of the Soviet Union. His latest book, Betrayal: France, the Arabs and the Jews, will be published in the fall by Encounter Books. Since 1999, he has been a senior editor of National Review.
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 identified with oppressed or faraway people and took it upon themselves to promote them. Usually they were applying to others what they saw [...]
Betrayal
France, the Arabs, and the Jews
David Pryce-Jones believes that France has done more damage to the Middle East than any other country, backing Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian cause, supporting Saddam Hussein, giving safe harbor to the Ayatollah Khomeini. Middle East geo-politics are spreading from French soil to an increasingly Islamized Europe.