12/11/2023 0 Comments Alfred dreyfus descendantsand recalled the fantastic case to me tellingly. Read is Catholic and examines fully and the anti-Catholic aspects of the case, and of course the anti-Semitic aspects in illuminating detail. The long effort to undo this gross miscarriage of justice is detailed well in the book and the harm the case did to France is fully explored. This book tells of those 4 horrific years more fully than the other books I read. But the case has always fascinated me and it has been years since I read those books and I know that Piers Paul Read is a very able writer so I could not resist reading this book The affarr arose in 1894 and Dreyfus was charged with treason and found guilty and sentenced to prison on Devil's Island, a French island in the Caribbean. I read the book The Affair: The Case of Alfred Dreyfus by Jean-Louis Bredin and Dreyfu: A Family Affair, by Michael Burns, both of which I found to be outstanding. The others were the stunning and Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Ablaze: The Story of Chernobyl and a work of fiction, Monk Dawson. The Dreyfus Affair The Scandal That Tore France in Two, by Piers Paul Read (read ) This is the fourth book I have read by this author. It is a key to an understanding of later history the Holocaust and Zionism: the virulent anti-Semitism of the anti-Dreyfusards and the decision that the Jews must have a state of their own. The Dreyfus Affair uniquely combines a fast-moving mystery story with a snapshot of France at a moment of great social flux and cultural richness - the Belle Epoque, the Impressionists, novelists such as Flaubert, Zola, the Goncourts, Proust. Not long afterwards Dreyfus was incarcerated on Devil's Island.īut how did an innocent man come to be convicted? And why was he kept locked up for so long? Despite minimal evidence against him he was placed under arrest for the crime of high treason. On October 13, Captain Dreyfus was summoned by the General de Boisdeffre to the Ministry of War. Many of them came from the impoverished Catholic aristocracy and disliked Dreyfus because he was rich, bourgeois and, above all, a Jew. However, Dreyfus' rise in the army had not made him friends. Shy, reserved, sometimes awkward, but intelligent and ambitious, Dreyfus had everything he might have hoped for: a wife, two enchanting children, plenty of money and a post on the General Staff. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff that he was in desperate need of money and was therefore prepared to sell military secrets to the Germans.Ĭaptain Alfred Dreyfus, then aged 35, was a high-flying career artillery officer. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name.
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