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Inside the Battle of Algiers : memoir of a woman freedom fighter / Zohra Drif ; translated from the French by Andrew Farrand ; foreword by Lakhdar Brahimi.
- Title
- Inside the Battle of Algiers : memoir of a woman freedom fighter / Zohra Drif ; translated from the French by Andrew Farrand ; foreword by Lakhdar Brahimi.
- Author
- Drif-Bitat, Zohra
- Publication
- Charlottesville, Virginia : Just World Books, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Farrand, Andrew
- Description
- xix, 346 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for French aggression against the local population, they leapt at the chance. Their actions were later portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo’s famed film, 'The Battle of Algiers.' When first published in French in 2013, this intimate memoir was met with great acclaim and no small amount of controversy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century and their relevance today, but also the specific challenges that women often confronted (and overcame) in those movements."--Amazon.com.
- Uniform Title
- Memoires d'une combattante de l'ALN. English
- Alternative Title
- Memoires d'une combattante de l'ALN.
- Subjects
- 1900-1999
- Revolution > (Algeria : > 1954-1962)
- Autobiographies
- Algiers (Algeria) > History > 20th century
- Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962
- National liberation movements > Algeria > History > 20th century
- Women revolutionaries > Algeria > Biography
- Revolutionaries > Algeria > Biography
- Drif-Bitat, Zohra
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Note
- Translation of: Memoires d'une combattante de l'ALN. Broché, 2014.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / by Lakhdar Brahimi -- Maps (Algiers and Algeria) -- In the familial embrace -- Awakening -- First contact with the FLN -- Into the heart of the armed struggle -- In the Casbah -- Bringing the Algerian question to the global stage -- The eight-day strike -- Desperate times -- The arrest -- Glossary.
- ISBN
- 1682570754
- 9781682570753
- OCLC
- 975107545
- SCSB-12374722
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library