The War Without a Name: France in Algeria 1954-1962
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A compelling account of one of the great dramas of the postwar era: the struggle over the destiny of Algeria, a struggle in which terror bred torture, and France itself was torn into warring factions. The war shook French life as Vietnam was to shake American life. Talbott explicates the many facets of the struggle, and his incisive mind, intellectual judiciousness, and taut prose make this a model study, an important contribution to our understanding of our own recent past. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:057111671X
ISBN13:9780571116713
Release Date:January 1981
Publisher:Faber and Faber
Length:322 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
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Rated 4 starsThe war of independence in Algeria.
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John Talbot does a good job reviewing the reason why this war was fought. Algeria had been French since the early 1800s, and had a large settler population of one million. These one million settlers thought of themselves as French, whereas the other eight million people resident in Algeria thought of themselves as Algerians. Talbot describes the conflict between the FLN and the French Republic. Also described was the conflict...
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