An Officer and a Spy
Registered by Boekentrol of Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on 4/5/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by Boekentrol from Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Sunday, April 5, 2015
Synopsis:
"January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying ‘Death to the Jew!’
The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of ‘the Statistical Section’ – the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus.
The spy, meanwhile, is given a punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is shipped off to a lifetime of solitary confinement on Devil’s Island – unable to speak to anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever.
But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French soil, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists, and soon the officer and the spy are in the same predicament…"
"January 1895. On a freezing morning in the heart of Paris, an army officer, Georges Picquart, witnesses a convicted spy, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of twenty thousand spectators baying ‘Death to the Jew!’
The officer is rewarded with promotion: Picquart is made the French army’s youngest colonel and put in command of ‘the Statistical Section’ – the shadowy intelligence unit that tracked down Dreyfus.
The spy, meanwhile, is given a punishment of medieval cruelty: Dreyfus is shipped off to a lifetime of solitary confinement on Devil’s Island – unable to speak to anyone, not even his guards, his case seems closed forever.
But gradually Picquart comes to believe there is something rotten at the heart of the Statistical Section. When he discovers another German spy operating on French soil, his superiors are oddly reluctant to pursue it. Despite official warnings, Picquart persists, and soon the officer and the spy are in the same predicament…"
Journal Entry 2 by Boekentrol at Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Monday, April 12, 2021
What a gem of a book!
Okay, I admit to confusion every now and then because of the many names, ranks and promotions. But apart from that it was a very interesting book to read.
Based on one or more historical figures, it made history come to life.
And a saying like that in modern times with telegraph and more modern things secrets are not likely to stay secrets for long times, not like when men secretly gathered and wrote on parchment with a quill made me smile broadly, considering we're now living in even faster times.
Institutions hardly change. They (the people working there) take a position and move heaven and earth to make reality fit their version of her. I don't have the illusion something's different now.
Okay, I admit to confusion every now and then because of the many names, ranks and promotions. But apart from that it was a very interesting book to read.
Based on one or more historical figures, it made history come to life.
And a saying like that in modern times with telegraph and more modern things secrets are not likely to stay secrets for long times, not like when men secretly gathered and wrote on parchment with a quill made me smile broadly, considering we're now living in even faster times.
Institutions hardly change. They (the people working there) take a position and move heaven and earth to make reality fit their version of her. I don't have the illusion something's different now.
Journal Entry 3 by Boekentrol at Paddy O'Ryan Irish Pub in Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands on Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Released 2 yrs ago (4/28/2021 UTC) at Paddy O'Ryan Irish Pub in Leeuwarden, Fryslân (Friesland) Netherlands
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