My battle of Algiers : a memoir / Ted Morgan.
Morgan, Ted, 1932-
2007
DT295.3.M678 A3 2007 (Mapit)
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Title My battle of Algiers : a memoir / Ted Morgan.
Author Morgan, Ted, 1932-
ISBN 006120576 (pbk.)
9780061205767 (pbk.)
0060852240
9780060852245
Imprint New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.
Language English
Description xx, 284 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number DT295.3.M678 A3 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 965/.046/092 B
Summary 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.
Note Includes index.
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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.

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