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020 $a9780061205767 (pbk. )
035 $a(CSdNU)u293216-01national_inst
035 $a(OCoLC)85454340
035 $a(OCoLC)85454340
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050 14 $aDT295.3.M678$bA3 2007
100 1 $aMorgan, Ted,$d1932-
245 10 $aMy battle of Algiers :$ba memoir /$cTed Morgan.
250 $a1st Collins paperback ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSmithsonian Books/Collins,$c2007.
300 $axx, 284 p. :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 00 $tA child's history of Algeria --$tHow I went to war --$tLes Classes --$tIn the Bled --$tHow the war moved from the Bled to Algiers --$tThe first Battle of Algiers --$tBetween battles --$tThe second Battle of Algiers --$tMy end game.
520 $aHistorian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America, he relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist--and increasingly, many were. He spends months in the back country, where everyone, including himself, becomes involved in unimaginable barbarities. "You cannot fight a guerrilla war with humanitarian principles, " an officer tells him. Later, in Algiers, his brief journalistic experience gets him a job writing for a newspaper. He lives through the day-to-day struggle to put down the first Arab urban insurgency in modern history, with its unrelenting menu of bombings, assassinations, torture, show trials, executions, and the deliberate humiliation of prisoners. Though these events happened half a century ago in Algiers, they might as well have taken place in Baghdad today.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aMorgan, Ted,$d1932-
651 0 $aAlgeria$xHistory$yRevolution, 1954-1962$vPersonal narratives, French.
994 $aC0$bCNU
999 $aDT 295.3 .M678 A3 2007$wLC$c1$i31786102094536$lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS$rY$sY $tBOOK$u2/28/2007