The Dreyfus Affair : the story of the most infamous miscarriage of justice in French history
Piers Paul Read (Author)
"A rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies -- many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented him because he was middle-class, meritocratic and a Jew. In 1894, torn fragments of a memo containing military secrets were discovered in a waste paper basket in the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence learned of a spy in their midst, Captain Dreyfus, on slender evidence, was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island. A story rife with heroes and villians, the Dreyfus affair divided France and unleashed violent hatreds and anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long, bloody twentieth century to come."--Page 4 of cover
Print Book, English, 2013
Paperback edition
Bloomsbury, London, 2013