Ruth Harris is a Fellow and tutor in Modern History at New College, Oxford and is the author of the highly acclaimed Lourdes.
Winner of the WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2010 and 2010 NATIONAL JEWISH
BOOK AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
*Prizes and awards*
An extraordinary study of the affair as a tragic drama that swept
up a man, his family and friends, and more widely French society
and the French state.
*The New York Review of Books*
A triumph of research and analysis.
*The Irish Times*
Ruth Harris offers us one of the most thorough and eloquent
accounts of this turbulent episode.
*Scotland on Sunday*
With the aid of copious illustrations, helpful chronology and a
list of leading characters, [Harris] offers a compelling account of
incidents
*BBC History*
Ruth Harris' minutely detailed examination of the rich mulch from
which the Dreyfus case sprouted its fleurs du mal, adds a new level
of learning to the affair that defined 20th-century France
*Telegraph*
a highly imaginative, deeply-researched inquiry into the battle
over Dreyfus which revels in paradox and complexity.
*TLS*
"Harris is a first-rate narrative historian... What marks Harris's
contribution is her formidable research skills, her exceptionally
wide general and historical reading, and her always interesting eye
for the revealing anecdote or pen portrait."
*The Guardian*
"Scrupulous and well-written... Harris is to be thanked for the
care and measure of her sifting and weighing, and for the deep
historical perspective that she brings to the undertaking."
*The Weekly Standard*
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