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My battle of Algiers : a memoir
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My battle of Algiers : a memoir

Author: Ted Morgan
Publisher: New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st Collins paperback edView all editions and formats
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Historian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America, he relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist--and increasingly, many were. He spends months in the back country, where everyone, including himself,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Personal narratives, French
Named Person: Ted Morgan
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ted Morgan
ISBN: 0061205761 9780061205767
OCLC Number: 85454340
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xx, 284 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: A child's history of Algeria --
How I went to war --
Les Classes --
In the Bled --
How the war moved from the Bled to Algiers --
The first Battle of Algiers --
Between battles --
The second Battle of Algiers --
My end game.
Responsibility: Ted Morgan.

Abstract:

Historian and biographer Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget, recounting his own experiences as a French soldier in the savage Algerian War in 1956-1957. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America, he relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist--and increasingly, many were. He spends months in the back country, where everyone, including himself, becomes involved in unimaginable barbarities. "You cannot fight a guerrilla war with humanitarian principles," an officer tells him. Later, in Algiers, his brief journalistic experience gets him a job writing for a newspaper. He lives through the day-to-day struggle to put down the first Arab urban insurgency in modern history, with its unrelenting menu of bombings, assassinations, torture, show trials, executions, and the deliberate humiliation of prisoners. Though these events happened half a century ago in Algiers, they might as well have taken place in Baghdad today.--From publisher description.

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