Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

An insightful new biography of the central figure in the Dreyfus Affair, focused on the man himself and based on newly accessible documents

“An admirable introduction not only to its nominal subject but to . . . great historical events.”—Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books

On January 5, 1895, Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s cries of innocence were drowned out by a mob shouting “Death to Judas!” In this book, Maurice Samuels gives readers new insight into Dreyfus himself—the man at the c...