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The Dreyfus affair: one hundred years on.(Book review)
"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 ...
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- Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa Waxman, Chaim I. January 1, 2004 700+ words
DREYFUS AFFAIR Famous turn-of-the-century case...Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French army, was convicted in a secret military...HarperCollins, 1991. Derfler, Leslie. The Dreyfus Affair. Westport, CT: Green-wood, 2002...
- Hillel to explore the Dreyfus Affair.(COMMUNITY NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) February 1, 2008 700+ words
...Captain Alfred Dreyfus. The Dreyfus Affair, as it was known, was a "seminal...Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew in the French army, was accused and then convicted...that he was innocent. "The Dreyfus Affair was one of the most notorious...
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- Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA) February 29, 2008 700+ words
...of Prejudice: The Dreyfus Affair" at the 808 Commonwealth...general staff of the French Army. He was falsely accused...Holocaust." The Dreyfus Affair, as it was known...Collection of the Dreyfus Affair at the University...
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- Magazine article from: American Scholar LeGouis, Catherine June 22, 1997 700+ words
...1894 and 1906, the Dreyfus Affair makes Watergate seem...rehabilitation of Dreyfus. The Dreyfus Affair, a collection of...Intelligence Bureau of the French army intercepted a letter...revision." The Dreyfus Affair was now in full swing...
- France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods Summers, Jerry L. March 22, 2000 700+ words
...Michael Burns. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. New...Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew in the French army whom fellow officers targeted...s documentary history of the Dreyfus affair provokes rumination about the...
- The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review June 22, 2006 700+ words
The Dreyfus Affair: A Chronological History. George R. Whyte. Palgrave Macmillan...martial of one French Jewish officer and ended as a trial of the French army and judiciary in a republic which boasted of its 'liberty, equality...
- French intelligence and the Dreyfus affair.
- Magazine article from: Spokesman Magazine Casey, Dennis August 1, 2005 700+ words
...accounts described him as just an average French Army captain. Nothing could be further from...insisted, however, upon a career in the French Army. Patriotic feelings ran high in the...represented his devotion to France. The French Army also presented to Alfred an outlet for...
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- Magazine article from: Midstream Adler, Joseph January 1, 2002 700+ words
...militarists still smarted from the humiliating defeat of the French army at Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War. Indeed, the obsessive...Polytechnique, was commissioned as an artillery officer in the French army (1882). Upon completion of a staff course at the Ecole...
