{"product_id":"the-dreyfus-trials","title":"The Dreyfus Trials","description":"\u003cp\u003eLegal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing the objective morality of Justice. But, from time to time, a court of law can be as political, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State. The classic instance is the story of the trials of Alfred Dreyfus. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn December 1894 a French military tribunal found Alfred Dreyfus guilty of high treason. Dreyfus was a Jew; the War Office was determined that at all costs the honour and good name of the Army must be upheld; and both left and right in the French Parliament used the convulsions of the case for what they believed to be their own advantage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe original verdict affected the Army, the Church, the Judiciary and the State over the following twelve years. Even now the case provokes arguments of fierce intensity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuy Chapman's classic exposition of the long drawn-out trials has been out of print for many years and this present thorough revision incorporates the findings of recent scholarship; it is compellingly readable and unapproachably authoritative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe questions still remain - how far were the Dreyfus Trials the product of a conscious conspiracy, how far an unconscious conspiracy of silence, and how far did 'justice' prevail?","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833533903053,"sku":"9781448205875","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_0f48ab4c-8d45-46a2-99ec-e8ad21b6bef8.jpg?v=1790888510","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-dreyfus-trials","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}