The Dreyfus Affair: The Scandal That Tore France in Two
- ISBN-10
- 1608194329
- ISBN-13
- 9781608194322
- Series
- The Dreyfus Affair
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 408
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-13
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Piers Paul Read
Description
Documents the case of a successful Jewish captain in the French artillery command who was wrongly convicted of high treason, chronicling the twelve-year effort to secure his freedom and describing period anti-Semitism.
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