Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
![Loading indicator](/images/ajax-loader-bar.gif)
Previews available in: English
Places
AlgeriaTimes
Revolution, 1954-1962Showing 2 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
A savage war of peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
2006, New York Review Books
in English
1590172183 9781590172186
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
A savage war of peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
1987, Penguin Books
in English
- Rev. ed.
0140101918 9780140101911
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 572-577.
"Elisabeth Sifton books."
Includes index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 1, 2008
- 4 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
July 31, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
April 16, 2010 | Edited by bgimpertBot | Added goodreads ID. |
December 12, 2009 | Edited by WorkBot | link works |
April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record |