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Papers of the Priest family comprising George Priest junior's diary of his voyage in 1850 on the 'Sea Queen'; a poem written by a Priest family member about their voyage out in 1851 on the 'Omega'; and a letter back to England in 1852 written by James Priest of Lombard Street, North Adelaide.
In Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was ultimately hanged for treason and (in effect) crimes against humanity by a postwar reunified Czechoslovakia. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ward portrays Tiso as a devoutly religious man who came to privilege the maintenance of a Slovak state over all other concerns, helping thus to condemn Slovak Jewry to destruction. Ward, however, refuses to reduce Tiso to a mere opportunist, portraying ...