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A Savage War of Peace
- Algeria 1954-1962
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
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Publisher's Summary
At the time, this brutal, intractable conflict seemed like a French affair. But from the perspective of half a century, it looks less like the last colonial war than the first postmodern one: a full-dress rehearsal for the amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, struggles in which religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism assume unparalleled degrees of intensity.
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- callum
- 17-08-2022
it's good, but not being French doesn't help.
I enjoyed the audio book but I found the untranslated French passages going straight over my head.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-03-2024
Hard going but great lessons.
it's a dense read/listen but rewarding in its lessons. The author slips in some French and some older references that I didn't understand but on the whole it was accessible and felt like a deep discussion of the war.
Great book for consideration of ct methods and action.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-11-2018
Completely Eurocentric perspective
This book is incredibly well researched, exhaustive and well worth listening to. Be warned however that it is no way an objective treatise. The author provides a completely Eurocentric perspective of one of the most brutal colonial projects of the twentieth century. At no point does Horne bother to consider the humanity, intelligence or agency of the Algerian population in comparison to the intimate details given over to the French military and Pied Noir. At best it is paternalistic, at worst it demonstrates the deep rooted racist bias disguised as dispassionate 'history'. If you can stomach the shocking generalisations, wilful misrepresentation of the Algerian people and casual disregard of the trauma, victimisation and violence suffered at the hands of one of the worlds best equipped and financed modern armies, this book is an amazing insight into one of the great struggles of the colonised world to find independence at great cost.
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