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rsdsharp

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11. I'm reading An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris.

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Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:23 PM

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This is a novel about the aftermath of the Dreyfus affair, told from the viewpoint of Colonel Georges Picquart, who discovered not only that Dreyfus was innocent, but that another French officer was guilty of the crimes for which Dreyfus was sent to Devil’s Island.

Most books have a disclaimer that any similarity between the characters in the book and real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This novel has a reverse disclaimer; that all of the characters in the book were real people, and actually did what they are depicted doing in the book.

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