Dreyfus: A Family Affair 1789-1945
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Remainder mark
At the crossroads of French nationalism, antisemitism, and justice, the Dreyfus Affair stands as one of the most explosive political scandals in modern European history — and Michael Burns's Dreyfus: A Family Affair 1789–1945 traces its roots far deeper than a single courtroom verdict. Chronicles the multigenerational saga of the Dreyfus family from the turbulent years of the French Revolution through the horrors of the Second World War, the narrative illuminates how one Jewish family's fate became inextricably bound to the fate of France itself, from the promise of Enlightenment emancipation to the darkness of Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. Burns argues with scholarly precision and narrative elegance that the Dreyfus Affair was not merely a miscarriage of justice but a cultural and political earthquake whose tremors reshaped republican France. Drawing on extensive archival research, he presents a richly human portrait — of Alfred Dreyfus, his devoted family, and the fractured nation that condemned and then rehabilitated him — revealing the enduring tensions between liberty and prejudice that defined an era. For anyone who believes the past is truly past, this meticulously researched chronicle will prove unsettlingly otherwise.
Author: Michael Burns
Format: Hardback
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner,Remainder mark
At the crossroads of French nationalism, antisemitism, and justice, the Dreyfus Affair stands as one of the most explosive political scandals in modern European history — and Michael Burns's Dreyfus: A Family Affair 1789–1945 traces its roots far deeper than a single courtroom verdict. Chronicles the multigenerational saga of the Dreyfus family from the turbulent years of the French Revolution through the horrors of the Second World War, the narrative illuminates how one Jewish family's fate became inextricably bound to the fate of France itself, from the promise of Enlightenment emancipation to the darkness of Nazi occupation and the Holocaust. Burns argues with scholarly precision and narrative elegance that the Dreyfus Affair was not merely a miscarriage of justice but a cultural and political earthquake whose tremors reshaped republican France. Drawing on extensive archival research, he presents a richly human portrait — of Alfred Dreyfus, his devoted family, and the fractured nation that condemned and then rehabilitated him — revealing the enduring tensions between liberty and prejudice that defined an era. For anyone who believes the past is truly past, this meticulously researched chronicle will prove unsettlingly otherwise.