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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics)

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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 with reference to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than one million Muslim Algerians died within the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was once 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 all over the world. Indeed from today’s vantage point the Algerian War looks like a full-dress rehearsal for such a amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans within the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdad—struggles by which questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism take on a new and increasingly more 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 very important reading for our own violent times in addition to a lasting monument to the historian’s art.

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