Book review: Biography reveals Casement more than a little crazed

'Broken Angel' is an excellent portrait of a troubled figure and it offers many lessons to those open to absorbing them

It is impossible to read Roland Phillips’ comprehensive and authoritative biography of the ultimately tragic Roger Casement without concluding that Casement, for all his nobility and courage, for all his humanity and generosity, was more than a little bit bonkers. File picture: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

• Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement 
• Roland Phillips 
• Bodley Head, £25.00