A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (1986)

Format: Trade Paperback

ISBN: 0140051376

Condition: Acceptable

There is highlighting throughout the text. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Contents Description:

It was to cause the fall of six French prime ministers and the collapse of the Fourth Republic; it came close to bringing down de Gaulle and – twice – to plunging Metropolitan France into the chaos of civil war. No real declaration of hostilities was ever made, yet equally, it was an undeniably and horribly savage war, bringing death to an estimated million Muslim Algerians and expulsion from their homes to about the same number of European settlers. If one side practised unspeakable mutilations, the other tortured. - from the back cover