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`... essential reading ... an invaluable source of historical details ... one of the most detailed accounts of the violence written in any language.' --J. N. C. Hill, Intelligence and National Security, August 2009
The Literary Review, London, Dec 2007/Jan 2008
"compelling ... a detailed and impressive work," Paul Legg, Literary Review.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Although I have yet to complete the book, 2 chapters in and I am impressed. I have been looking for a book in English that credits Mohamed Harbi, the authority on Algerian history and have found this to be a worthy purchase. I was impressed with delivery and condition, not to mention in Hardback, always a bonus.
Highly recommended...so far.
Highly recommended...so far.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is very informative and well-written. I was happy to find it at a lower price as I needed it for a university course and couldn't spend too much.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding one-volume history of Algeria and its problems
4 May 2008
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The book is worthy to stand next to Alistair Horne's classic "A Savage War of Peace" in the bibiliography of books about this fascinating country with a tragic history. Not only does it clearly describe the war for independence in the 50's and 60's, but it also provides a very readalbe acount of the extreme violence the country witnessed in the 1990's. It also provides some interesting lessons that we could apply to our involvelement in Iraq.
Very readable and highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the region or Algeria specifically.
Very readable and highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the region or Algeria specifically.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
One of the best analyses of the Algerian ninety civil war
17 Mar 2009
Format:Hardcover
Great Thanks to John Philips and Martin Evans for the quality of this study. They succeeded to give a global vision of a complicated conflict which has deep roots in the regional history. Furthermore,they kept an ability to go into the more important details. We find a lot of anecdote along the study that helps a non native to understand the subtilities of the local caracter and visions. I didn't find such a synthesis, even in the french literature.
Grand merci aux auteurs pour leur analyse perspicasse et leur honnêteté intellectuelle. Ils ont su donner une vision globale du conflit actuel et mettre en évidence des causes qui plongent leurs racines dans l'histoire de la région, tout en gardant un soucis du détail remarquable; le récit est jalonné d'anecdotes instructives et parlantes. Il n'y a pas, à ma connaissance, d'équivalent à cet ouvrage dans la bibliographie francophone.
Grand merci aux auteurs pour leur analyse perspicasse et leur honnêteté intellectuelle. Ils ont su donner une vision globale du conflit actuel et mettre en évidence des causes qui plongent leurs racines dans l'histoire de la région, tout en gardant un soucis du détail remarquable; le récit est jalonné d'anecdotes instructives et parlantes. Il n'y a pas, à ma connaissance, d'équivalent à cet ouvrage dans la bibliographie francophone.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Good place to begin your study of Algeria
21 Jun 2008
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* Three maps
* Seventeen plates
* Helpful Arabic glossary
* Twenty two pages of footnotes
* Seven page bibliography
Chapters four to eight focus on post-1988 Algeria.
Bite-sized chapters; longest is 41 pages.
* Seventeen plates
* Helpful Arabic glossary
* Twenty two pages of footnotes
* Seven page bibliography
Chapters four to eight focus on post-1988 Algeria.
Bite-sized chapters; longest is 41 pages.
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