Prisoners of Honor: The Dreyfus Affair

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1975. Hard Back. Near Fine/Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 346 pages indexed with bibliography. Tan boards with dark blue cloth quarter spine and gold lettering. Blue pictorial dust jacket has some shelf scuffs, minor creases and edge wear, and 8.95 price is unclipped. Attractive bright blue endpapers. An examination of the Dreyfus Affair---the story of Alfred Dreyfus, the French Army's most promising Jewish officer who was falsely accused of passing military secrets to Germany. How high goverment officials framed Dreyfus as a traitor to enhance their own political ambitions and in doing so raised anit-Semitism to a national passion. They then claimed 'national security' as their reason for covering up the crime they had committed-fearing such revelation would cause the governments downfall. It ended as the cause celebre of the nineteenth century, the Affair not only of France but of the world, an event that eventually was to cause mass protests in Europe and America and produce Emile Zola's ringing J'Accuse and involve such famous figures as Mark Twain, William James and Queen Victoria. Forty five black and white photographs. Contents in Fifteen Chapters. Preface, Chronology, and Selected Sources. A stunning re-creation of a terrible act of injustice that has an eerie contemporary ring.