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Algerian War of Independence
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Algerian War of Independence (1954–62) On 1 November 1954, hostilities broke out between the Christian colonists of French descent and Algerian Muslim nationalists who were organized into the
Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) under
Ben Bella. Despite its initial inferiority, the brutality of the well-armed French and colonists' troops soon brought the FLN agrar...
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Algeria: France, the United States, and the Algerian war
The Middle East Journal
; France, the United States, and the Algerian War, by Irwin M. Wall. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001. xiii + 268 pages. Map. Illus. Notes to p. 309. Bibl. to p. 319. Index to p. 335. $39.95. The decolonization of Algeria is usually interpreted as a supreme French internal problem
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France, the United States and the Algerian War.(Book Review)
Middle Eastern Studies
; by Irwin M. Wall. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xiv + 319, bibliography, index. 27.95 [pounds sterling39.95 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-22534-1. Among the many achievements that support Charles de Gaulle's claims to political greatness is his successful
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De Gaulle: Himself, At all Costs
The Washington Post
; Georges Pompidou, the crafty banker-president of France who died in office in 1974, is remembered today for two things. One is the damage he allowed his business chums to inflict on the Paris skyline with tasteless skyscrapers. The other is his eloquent announcement to the nation of his
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Wall, Irwin M. France, the United States, and the Algerian War.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books
; Wall, Irwin M. France, the United States, and the Algerian War Berkeley: University of California Press 348 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-520-22534-1 Publication Date: July 2001 For those who never appreciated the complexities of cold war diplomacy, Irwin M. Wall's absorbing study will serve as an important
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FOREIGN JOURNAL; French Play Sets Off New Wave of Nostalgia for de Gaulle
The Washington Post
; Imposingly tall on the landscape, the giant Cross of Lorraine announces this village from afar. Charles de Gaulle, who lived and died here, chose the two-barred cross as the symbol for the Free France he declared, from lonely exile, after the German occupation nearly 60 years ago. It was his finest
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