Algeria's Agony: The Brutal War for Algerian Independence, 1954-1962
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Sep 2026 · M. Muñoz
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Algeria's Agony. The Brutal War for Algerian Independence, 1954-1962. Between 1954 and 1962, France and Algeria fought one of the most brutal and consequential decolonization conflicts of the twentieth century — a war that France refused to call a war, that was fought with systematic torture, terrorist bombings, and mass displacement, and that ended with one million Europeans fleeing a country their families had inhabited for five generations. Algeria's Agony examines this conflict with the rigor and moral seriousness it demands, moving between the mountain guerrilla warfare of the FLN's early years, the savage urban battle for Algiers in 1957, and the political crisis that toppled the French Fourth Republic and brought Charles de Gaulle back to power. Readers encounter the complexity of all parties: the FLN fighters whose nationalist cause was just but whose methods included terrorism against civilians; the French paratroopers ordered to use torture by a democracy that claimed to represent universal values; the pieds-noirs settlers who loved a colonial Algeria that could not survive; and the harkis — 300,000 Algerian auxiliaries fighting for France — whom France ultimately abandoned to massacre. The book follows the story through the Evian Accords, independence, and the postcolonial Algeria that emerged from the ruins, asking what this war means for our understanding of colonialism, decolonization, and the uses and limits of violence.
Algeria's Agony. The Brutal War for Algerian Independence, 1954-1962. Between 1954 and 1962, France and Algeria fought one of the most brutal and consequential decolonization conflicts of the twentieth century — a war that France refused to call a war, that was fought with systematic torture, ter...
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