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Article: The Dreyfus affair: one hundred years on.(Book review)
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- Quadrant
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- July 1, 2006
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"BRAVO ZOLA", the eighteen-year-old Winston Churchill, then in Paris, wrote to his mother, "I am delighted to witness the complete debacle of this monstrous conspiracy." He was speaking of the re-trial of Alfred Dreyfus and his outburst reflected sentiment around the globe. One hundred years on, George R. Whyte's exemplary new publication The Dreyfus Affair must rank as the single most forensic account ever compiled of this sour chapter in French military, political and judicial history. It took him twenty years to write.
What is so remarkable about this book--the reassembling of an event which divided a nation and spilled across continents--is the depth and ...