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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