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Book The Tragedy of Dreyfus

Download or read book The Tragedy of Dreyfus written by George Warrington Steevens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Dreyfus written by G. W. Steevens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Tragedy of Dreyfus In 1894 there was attached to the General Staff of the French Army a captain of artillery named Alfred Dreyfus. He belonged to a Jewish family of Mühlhausen, in Alsace - a family which has distinguished itself since the annexation by its attachment to France. Two of his three brothers, like himself, opted in 1872 for French nationality; the eldest, who remained at Mühlhausen to manage the family factories, after sending his six sons successively to France, finally retired from business in 1897, and became naturalized as a Frenchman also. Alfred Dreyfus was, in 1894, thirty-five years old. He had the reputation of a very industrious and intelligent officer; but his demeanour oscillated between complaisance and ostentation, and he was not popular among his comrades. In September of that year a secret agent brought a document to Major Henry, sub-chief of the Intelligence Department of the War Office; it was torn into little pieces, and was said to have been taken from the overcoat pocket of Colonel Schwarzkoppen, the German Military Attache in Paris. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Tragedy of Dreyfus

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  • Author : G.-W. Steevens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Dreyfus written by George Warrington Steevens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traitor  Traitor

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  • Author : Johnston D. Kerkhoff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1930
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

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Book The Dreyfus Affair

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  • Author : Leslie Derfler
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2002-04-30
  • ISBN : 0313092419
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair written by Leslie Derfler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 15, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish artillery captain attached to the French General Staff, was arrested on charges of having betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the Germans. He was convicted of treason by military court-martial and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island, but over the next 12 years a small group of human rights supporters was able to clear him and identify the real traitor, and Dreyfus was pardoned. The most sensational case in French history, it pitted national security interests against individual rights, exposed the anti-Semitism that permeated France, and influenced the course of Europe as it rumbled toward the first of two world wars. This work provides the first comprehensive examination of this incident for students, including a narrative historical overview, essays on major aspects of the event, lengthy biographical profiles of the key players, the text of important primary documents contemporary to the time, a timeline of the event and list of French Presidents and Ministers of War during the Affair, a glossary of terms, and a bibliography of print and electronic sources and films suitable for students. This is an ideal resource for student use. Leslie Derfler, the foremost American authority on the Dreyfus Affair, puts the Affair in historical and social context for the reader. In addition to an historical overview, other essays examine the French political context before Dreyfus, the issue of anti-Semitism in the Affair, the Socialists' position, and how historical perceptions of the Dreyfus Affair have shifted over the last hundred years. Lengthy biographies of key players enrich the reader's understanding of the role of the protagonists and antagonists in the Affair. A wide range of primary source documents, from Alfred Dreyfus's diary descriptions of the torment he suffered on Devil's Island to Emile Zola's famous J'accuse! letter accusing the Army high command and the French government of conspiring to hide the truth and protect the guilty party, bring to life the emotional content of the Affair. A selection of rare photographs and newspaper illustrations and cartoons provides a valuable visual component.

Book The Tragedy of Dreyfus

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  • Author : George Warrington Steevens
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-05-19
  • ISBN : 9781357369125
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Tragedy of Dreyfus written by George Warrington Steevens and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Dreyfus Affair Tragedy of Errors

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair Tragedy of Errors written by Leslie Derfler and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover one of the greatest scandals of French history with this gripping account of the Dreyfus Affair. Written by Leslie Derfler, a distinguished historian of modern France, this book tells the story of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer who was falsely accused of espionage and sentenced to life in prison. With its rich detail and nuanced analysis, this book sheds light on a pivotal moment in French history and raises important questions about justice, democracy, and human rights. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Dreyfus Affair

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair written by Leslie Derfler and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tragedy of Dreyfus

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  • Author : George Warrington Steevens
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1899
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Tragedy of Dreyfus written by George Warrington Steevens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dreyfus Affair

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  • Author : G. Whyte
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2005-10-12
  • ISBN : 0230584500
  • Pages : 560 pages

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair written by G. Whyte and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of a comprehensive series on the Dreyfus Affair, this account chronicles for the first time in English and day by day, the drama that destabilized French society (1894-1906) and reverberated across the world. A deliberate miscarriage of justice, the public degradation of an innocent Jewish officer and his incarceration on Devil's Island, espionage, intrigue, media pressure, vehement antisemitism and political skulduggery - topics so relevant to our times - are set within a broad historical context. Meticulous research, new translations of key documents, a wealth of primary sources and illustrations and a select bibliography make this an indispensable reference work.

Book The Dreyfus Affair

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  • Author : Piers Paul Read
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2012-02-02
  • ISBN : 1408801396
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair written by Piers Paul Read and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent, ambitious and a rising star in the French artillery, Captain Alfred Dreyfus appeared to have everything: family, money, and the prospect of a post on the General Staff. But his rapid rise had also made him enemies - many of them aristocratic officers in the army's High Command who resented him because he was middle-class, meritocratic and a Jew. In October 1894, the torn fragments of an unsigned memo containing military secrets were retrieved by a cleaning lady from the waste paper basket of Colonel Maximilien von Schwartzkoppen of the German embassy in Paris. When French intelligence pieced the document back together to uncover proof of a spy in their midst, Captain Dreyfus, on slender evidence, was charged with selling military secrets to the Germans, found guilty of treason by unanimous verdict and sentenced to life imprisonment on the notorious Devil's Island. The fight to free the wrongfully convicted Dreyfus - over twelve long years, through many trials - is a story rife with heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, dissimulation and deceit. One of the most infamous miscarriages of justice in history, the Dreyfus affair divided France, stunned the world and unleashed violent hatreds and anti-Semitic passions which offered a foretaste of what was to play out in the long, bloody twentieth century to come. Today, amid charged debates over national and religious identity across the globe, its lessons throw into sharp relief the conflicts of the present. In the hands of historian, biographer and prize-winning novelist Piers Paul Read, this masterful epic of the struggle between a minority seeking justice and a military establishment determined to save face comes dramatically alive for a new generation.

Book TRAGEDY OF DREYFUS

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  • Author : G. W. STEEVENS
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033501511
  • Pages : 0 pages

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Book The Dreyfus Affair

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  • Author : Piers Paul Read
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-03-13
  • ISBN : 1608194329
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair written by Piers Paul Read and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Dreyfus Affair

Download or read book The Dreyfus Affair written by De Lamar Jensen and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Author : Leslie Derfler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book The Dreyfus affair written by Leslie Derfler and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Affair  The Case of Alfred Dreyfus

Download or read book The Affair The Case of Alfred Dreyfus written by Jean-Denis Bredin and published by Plunkett Lake Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published by Plunkett Lake Press and George Braziller, Inc. On an autumn morning in 1894, Captain Dreyfus was summoned to appear for a routine inspection; instead, as he took down a letter dictated by a senior officer, he was summarily accused of high treason. So began a twelve-year series of events that included his imprisonment on Devil’s Island, the publication of Emile Zola’s passionateJ’Accuse, the Rennes retrial, and the pardon and final rehabilitation of 1906. As the Dreyfus case turned into the Affair, the history of a single military career came to display the conflicts that were tearing France apart: military defeat, anti-Semitic furor, and the place of traditional values in a country still reeling from the turbulence of the French Revolution. Told with an historian’s insight and a novelist’s skill, The Affairmakes fascinating and informative reading about one of the most celebrated episodes in modern history. “There have been many books about the Dreyfus Affair, but Jean-Denis Bredin's book is one of the best of them — lucid, well-organized, informed by a fine sense of drama.” — John Gross, The New York Times “[a] critically acclaimed study” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “If one is limited to a single book about the Dreyfus case and its consequences, this should be it. Bredin has told this story with precision, passion, and a vivid sense of character.” — The New York Review of Books “A brilliant and fascinating book. What is most remarkable about The Affair is the skill and sensitivity with which the author places it in its essential historical setting. It is also a gripping — though terrible — story superbly told.” — The Atlantic “This is the most judicious and absorbing account to date of the Dreyfus Case.” — The Boston Globe “This is certainly the best book on the Dreyfus case now available in the English language.” — San Francisco Examiner “Bredin is crystal clear in his gripping narrative of the complex case. His tapestry glows with all the color of the Belle Epoque and its extravagances.” — Chicago Sun-Times “There have been other books on the Affair, but I can’t imagine any of them coming even close to Bredin’s work. He is brilliant at placing the myriad elements of the Affair in context with verve and lucidity. It should be a model for future historians.” — San Francisco Chronicle