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Title

A savage war of peace : Algeria, 1954-1962 / Alistair Horne ; [with a new preface by the author].

Author

Horne, Alistair.

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, ©2006.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Description

608 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Algeria, 1954-1962

Subjects

• Algeria
• History
• 1954-1962
• Revolution > (Algeria : > 1954-1962)
• Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-580) and index.

Contents

Illustrations -- Map of Algeria -- Map of Algiers -- Preface -- pt. 1. Prelude 1830-1954 -- 1. "A town of no great interest" -- 2. "Ici, c'est la France" -- 3. In the middle of the Ford -- pt. 2. The War 1954-1958 -- 4. All Saint's Day, 1954 -- 5. The sorcerer's cauldron -- 6. The FLN : from Bandung to Soummam -- 7. The second fronts of Guy Mollet -- 8. "Why we must win" -- 9. The battle of Algiers -- 10. Lost round for the FLN -- 11. The world takes notice -- 12. Le dernier quart d'Heure -- pt. 3. The hardest of all victories 1958-1962 -- 13. A kind of resurrection -- 14. "Je vous ai compris" -- 15. The FLN holds its breath -- 16. Neither the Djebel nor the night -- 17. "Aux barricades!" -- 18. "This Prince of ambiguity" -- 19. Revolution in the Revolution -- 20. De Gaulle caught in the draught -- 21. The Generals' putsch -- 22. Overtures for peace -- 23. The suitcase or the coffin -- 24. Exodus -- 25. The page is turned -- Afterword -- Colonel Godard's organogram -- Political and military abbreviations -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Reference notes -- Glossary -- Index.

Call Number

JFD 22-1591

ISBN

• 1590172183
• 9781590172186

LCCN

2006003506

OCLC

63297836

Author

Horne, Alistair.

Title

A savage war of peace : Algeria, 1954-1962 / Alistair Horne ; [with a new preface by the author].

Imprint

New York : New York Review Books, ©2006.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review Books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-580) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

1954-1962

Research Call Number

JFD 22-1591