A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954 – 1962 Human Kinetics and hope—the perfect gift for

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This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it

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A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954 – 1962 Human Kinetics and hope—the perfect gift forThe Algerian war lasted nearly eight years (195462) almost twice as long as the First World War. France's 130 year involvement in Algeria had started, ominously enough, with the toppling of the last Bourbon throne, and the war itself was to cause the fall of six French prime ministers and the collapse of the Fourth Republic itself. The story told so masterfully in A Savage War of Peace is at once a heroic and a tragic one, and poses issues of enduring