Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The ‘War without a Name’, the French Army and the Algerians: Recovering Experiences, Images and Testimonies

   1. The ‘War without a Name’, the French Army and the Algerians: Recovering Experiences, Images and Testimonies

      • Martin S. Alexander, Martin Evans, J. F. V. Keiger

      Pages 1-39

3. Experiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. From Indochina to Algeria: Counter-Insurgency Lessons

      • Alexander J. Zervoudakis

      Pages 43-60

   3. Algeria and the ‘Official Mind’: the Impact of North Africa on French Colonial Policy South of the Sahara, 1944–58

      • Martin Shipway

      Pages 61-75

   4. The Sahara and the Algerian War

      • Jacques Frémeaux

      Pages 76-87

   5. From One Crisis to Another: the Morale of the French Foreign Legion during the Algerian War

      • Eckard Michels

      Pages 88-100

   6. The War Culture of French Combatants in the Algerian Conflict

      • Jean-Charles Jauffret

      Pages 101-116

   7. The Harkis: the Experience and Memory of France’s Muslim Auxiliaries

      • Martin Evans

      Pages 117-133

4. Images

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. Anglo-Saxon Literary and Filmic Representations of the French Army in Algeria

      • Philip Dine

      Pages 137-151

   3. The Image of the French Army in the Cinematic Representation of the Algerian War: the Revolutionary Politics of The Battle of Algiers

      • Hugh Roberts

      Pages 152-163

   4. The Algerian War through the Prism of Anglo-Saxon Literature, 1954–66

      • Michael Brett

      Pages 164-173

   5. Le Monde’s Coverage of the Army and Civil Liberties during the Algerian War, 1954–58

      • Mohammed Khane

      Pages 174-192

   6. Psychological Propaganda during the Algerian War — Based on a Study of French Army Pamphlets

      • Nacéra Aggoun

      Pages 193-199

   7. Remembering the Algerian War: Memory/ies and Identity/ies in Téchiné’s Les Roseaux Sauvages

      • Brigitte Rollet

      Pages 200-210

   8. Children of the Occupation and Colonial Ideology

      • Bernard W. Sigg

      Pages 211-221

5. Witness Testimonies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Officer Corps Veterans

      • Martin S. Alexander, Martin Evans, J. F. V. Keiger

      Pages 225-242

   3. Anti-War Activists

      • Martin S. Alexander, Martin Evans, J. F. V. Keiger

      Pages 243-260

The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end one hundred and thirty two years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall of six French prime ministers, the collapse of the Fourth Republic and expulsion of one million French settlers. This volume, bringing together leading experts in the field, focuses on one of the key actors in the drama - the French army. They show that the Algerian War was just as much about conflicts of ideas, beliefs and loyalties as it was about simple military operations. In this way, the collection goes beyond polemic and recrimination to explore the many and varied nuances of what was one of the historically most important of the grand style colonial wars.

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• University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

  Martin S. Alexander

• University of Portsmouth, UK

  Martin Evans

• Centre for European Studies Research (CESR), UK

  Martin Evans

• University of Salford, UK

  J. F. V. Keiger

NACÉRA AGGOUN Member of the Institut Maghreb-Europe, Paris MICHAEL BRETT Reader in History of North Africa, School of Oriental and African Studies, London PHILIP DINE Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University JACQUES FRÉMEAUX Professor of Contemporary History, University of Paris IV, Sorbonne JEAN-CHARLES JAUFFRET Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Aix-en-Provence MOHAMED KHANE Teacher of French Civilization ECKARD MICHELS Lecturer in German Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London HUGH ROBERTS Senior Fellow, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science BRIGITTE ROLLET Specialist on French Film, Discourse and Culture MARTIN SHIPWAY Lecturer in French Studies, Birkbeck College, London BERNARD SIGG Psychoanalyst ALEXANDER J. ZERVOUDAKIS Department of War Studies, King's College, London

Policies and ethics