Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
by Begley, Louis
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- ISBN 10
- 0300125321
- ISBN 13
- 9780300125320
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New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009. xvi, 249 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Louis Begley, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy of the first printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil's Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards - committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another - against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army's top brass in order to secure Dreyfus's conviction." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Title
- Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
- Author
- Begley, Louis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0300125321
- ISBN 13
- 9780300125320
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven, CT
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
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