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Legal systems like to think of themselves as impartial and fair, dispensing the objective morality of Justice. But, every once in awhile, a court of law can be as politics, prejudiced, and biased as any other arm of the State. The classic case is the storyline of the studies of Alfred Dreyfus. In December 1894 a French military tribunal found Alfred Dreyfus guilty of high treason. Dreyfus was a Jew; the Warfare Office was motivated that at all costs the honour and good name of the Army must be upheld; and both kept and right in the France Parliament used the convulsions of the case for what they believed to be their own gain. The initial verdict affected the Army, the Church, the Judiciary, and the State over the following 12 years. Nonetheless the situation provokes arguments of fierce power. Guy Chapman's typical exposition of the long drawn-out studies has been out of printing for many years and this present in depth revision contains the results of recent scholarship or grant; it is compellingly readable and unapproachably authoritative. The questions still stay - how far were the Dreyfus Trials the product of a conscious conspiracy, how far an unconscious conspiracy of silence, and how far have 'justice' prevail? Person Chapman (1889-1972) was born in London and educated at Oxford where he trained to be a lawyer. When warfare was announced he became a member of the Royal Fusiliers and dished up on the American Front, making it through a mustard gas harm. Chapman also dished up in World Warfare II. Following the First World Warfare, he performed as an editor for a number of publishing houses where he satisfied his wife, copy writer Surprise Jameson before becoming Teacher of Modern Record, College or university of Leeds, 1945-53, and later a going to Professor, College or university of Pittsburgh, 1948-9. Having trained as a lawyer, Chapman's key literary works from the 1930s onwards examined French politics system and modern French background, and his amount of time in war.
