The Collaborator

At the close of World War II, the French government put writer and editor Robert Brasillach to death for the anti-Semitic and antidemocratic positions he'd taken during the war. The justification for his execution has been subjected to extensive scrutiny over the years, both by right-wingers and revisionists who see Brasillach as a martyr, and by thinkers like this book's author, who questions whether Brasillach wasn't singled out as much for his homosexuality as for his political positions.