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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Blackstone Audio Inc
Publication date January 1, 2008
Binding Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition Unabridged
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781433208867
ISBN-10 1433208865
Dimensions 2.75 by 4.25 by 6.50 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $44.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It caused the fall of six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, 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.

At the time, this brutal and intractable conflict seemed like a French affair. But from the perspective of half a century, it 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 now ravages the Middle East--struggles in which religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism assume previously unimagined degrees of intensity.

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Paperback
Book cover for 9780140101911 Book cover for 9781590172186
 
from New York Review of Books (October 10, 2006)
9781590172186 | details & prices | 608 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $19.95
Rev sub edition from Penguin USA (July 1, 1987)
9780140101911 | details & prices | List price $12.95
About: Recounts the causes of the Algerian War, explains how it caused the downfall of six French prime ministers, and tells how peace was finally acheived
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781433208867
 
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Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (January 1, 2008)
9781433208867 | details & prices | 4.25 × 6.50 × 2.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $44.95
About: The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962.

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