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Algeria 1954-1962
NYRB Classics
October 2006
On Sale: October 10, 2006
624 pages
ISBN: 1590172183
EAN: 9781590172186
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Non-Fiction
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down
six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth
Republic, returned de Gaulle 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
repressive torture. Nearly a half century has passed since this savagely fought
war ended in Algeria’s independence, and yet—as Alistair
Horne argues in his new preface to his now-classic work of
history—its repercussions continue to be felt not only in
Algeria and France, but throughout the world. Indeed from
today’s vantage point the Algerian War looks like a
full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that
convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the
Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdad—struggles in which
questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and
terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity. A Savage War of Peace is the definitive history of the
Algerian War, a book that brings that terrible and
complicated struggle to life with intelligence, assurance,
and unflagging momentum. It is essential reading for our own
violent times as well as a lasting monument to the
historian’s art.
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