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A savage war of peace

Algeria, 1954-1962

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An edition of A Savage War of Peace (1977)

A savage war of peace

Algeria, 1954-1962

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Although war was never formally declared, the Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused six French governments to fall, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, brought De Gaulle back to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and state torture. The war made headlines around the world, and at the time it seemed like a French affair: Now, this brutal and intractable conflict looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one--a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that is now ravaging Iraq, and in which religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism assume previously unimagined degrees of intensity.

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New York Review Books
Language
English
Pages
608

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History, Algeria, history, Algeria, politics and government

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Algeria

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Revolution, 1954-1962

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A savage war of peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 574-580) and index.

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New York Review Books classics
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Algeria, 1954-1962

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965/.046
Library of Congress
DT295 .H64 2006, DT295.H64 2006

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608 p. :
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608

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2006003506
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63297836
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21782
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18242

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