{"product_id":"9781448205875","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\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Reader","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46347808112719,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":630.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/ja\/products\/9781448205875","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}