The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two - Hardcover

Read, Piers Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1608194329 ISBN 13: 9781608194322

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2012

Synopsis

The award-winning historian and author of Alive documents the late 19th-century case of a successful Jewish captain in the French artillery command who was wrongly convicted of high treason, chronicling the 12-year effort to secure his freedom and describing the roles of colorful contributors and period anti-Semitism. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

The author effectively deploys his considerable literary talents to master the contortions of the affair and humanise the large cast of villains and heroes. The result is compelling and tense (Sunday Times)

Splendidly is conveys the drama of this episode. He brings to life the tension of trials and court martials (Independent)

His intention is to tell the story as it stands and he does so vividly and intelligently (New Statesman)

Masterly and eminently balanced ... Piers Paul Read's narrative is compelling. He disentangles the complicated web of the Affair and is just to both sides. I can't think the story could be better, or more fairly, told (Spectator)

Read chronicles developments with a novelist's flair, weaving a rich tapestry, evoking the humanity behind the history (Times Literary Supplement)

In bringing his novelist's eye to bear on events, Read ensures they unfold with a compelling sense of drama. And what an extraordinary story it is ... In admirably clearheaded fashion, he disentangles the facts from the myths and shows that this was far more morally ambiguous story than has often been presented (Sunday Telegraph)

**** [Read] guides us through the giddying twists and turns of this complex story with skill, and brings the large cast of characters vividly to life ... [this] elegant book is a timely reminder of the devastating consequences of bigotry and the abuse of power (Simon Griffith, Mail on Sunday)

Brilliantly vivid (Guardian)

In his new book, Piers Paul Read admirably demonstrates why we still find the subject fascinating more than a century after it resolved (Daily Telegraph)

Brings an original perspective to The Dreyfus Affair (Financial Times)

Book Description:

A compelling, new and highly accessible account of one of the most high-profile and influential miscarriages of justice in French history: The Dreyfus Affair

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1608194329
• ISBN 13: 9781608194322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408