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Algeria: France's Undeclared War (Making of the Modern World) Hardcover – 1 Jan 2012

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  • Hardcover: 494 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (1 Jan. 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0192803506
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192803504
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 4.6 x 16 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Easily the best account of the 1954-1962 war of Algerian independence available in English. (Financial Times, Books of the Year)

Excellent (The Economist)

Masterly (History Today)

Original (Le Monde Diplomatique)

Evans, a master scholar, has produced a comprehensive narrative. (Foreign Affairs)

Strikingly illustrated and using novel archival sources ... scintillating (Literary Review)

For the benefit of a new generation of anglophone readers, this book is a welcome statement of the progress that has been made. (Michael Brett, Times Literary Supplement)

Evans' great achievement is to 'Algerianise' the struggle. (History Today)

About the Author

Martin Evans is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Memory of Resistance: French Opposition to the Algerian War (1997), co-author (with Emmanuel Godin) of France 1815 to 2003 (2004), and co-author (with John Phillips) of Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed (2007). In 2008 Memory of Resistance was translated into French and serialised in the Algerian press. He has written for the Independent, the Times Higher Education Supplement, BBC History Magazine and the Guardian, and is a regular contributor to History Today. In 2007-08 he was a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellow at the British Academy.

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3.0 out of 5 starsLiberation struggle, dieing to be free
By Benjamin Girth VINE VOICE on 17 July 2012
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Fifty years after independence from France, Martin Evans has produced an interesting book on Algeria. The Middle East may be agriculturally arid but it is not for the want of irrigation by the blood of its' people. Read this and, if nothing else, you'll appreciate that. There is a mass of detail in this book but as the author states "the war was a complex and multilayered conflict. It was not just French against Algerian. It was French against French. It was a war of the cities. It was a war of the countryside. It was a war of image and propaganda. It was a war of international diplomacy that transcended national boundaries, and linked Algeria to metropolitan France, the French Union, the European Economic Community, the Arab world and the Cold War." (Page 230). How do you pull all of this together in a single book?

That he skims the surface is unavoidable, that is not a criticism. The alternative would have been to concentrate on individual elements of the conflict (for example the political, or economic, or social, or religious and then the many military dimensions) rather than present the whole story between two covers. For me the one serious deficiency was that this book needed a "fat' chapter on the de-colonisation of Morocco and Tunisia and the defeat in Indochina (Vietnam). This would have explained a good deal about French attitudes and actions of relevance to the Algerian experience. Martin Evans writes well - a very high 'facts to page' ratio - with the book neatly organised but for me he is weak on analysis. I would have liked him - having done a huge amount of research - to provide a fuller commentary on Algeria post liberation although this would have made it less a history / academic text and more a current affairs commentary.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsUpdates Alistair Horne's classic account
By F Henwood TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 20 April 2013
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Algeria fought a long war of independence from 1954 to1962, a bloody conflict that may have cost around 350,000 Algerian lives (proportional to France's losses during the First World War). Thus far, the classic text in English is Alistair Horne's A Savage War of Peace, a fantastically well-written account, but limited in that it tells the story mostly from the French side and neglects the pre-war (before 1954) historical context. This book redresses these shortcomings and provides a solid narrative of Algeria's history from the time of the French conquest of 1830 embedded in an analytical framework that explains the causes and consequences of the war, one of the bloodiest post-colonial independence struggles.

France's invasion of Algeria 1830 succeeded in crushing all resistance before it but left a legacy of hatred and bitterness among the conquered population. This resentment never subsided and formed the mulch in which sustained violent opposition to French rule was to arise.

This opposition did not define itself as Algerian but Muslim at the outset. And resistance took many forms, not all of it violent. Evans shows that Algerian nationalism developed much later. Like much anti-colonial nationalism, contact with the language and political culture of the coloniser stimulated a hitherto non-existent national consciousness. In Algeria, the FLN or National Liberation Front, nominally secular and nationalist, became the dominant opposing force to French rule, a position of ascendancy obtained in great part by extreme violence to fellow Algerians. Indeed, many Algerians in the years of 1954 to 1962 were caught between the twin fires of massive French and FLN violence.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis book taught me the true history of my country
By Meziane on 18 April 2012
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I think that the book provides a deep, complete and objective analysis of the Algerian War. I have never read such a comprehensive study on the issue and I hope that it will be translated into Arabic, Berber and French, and studied in all schools in Algeria and France. I wish I read it in the 1970s-1980s when I was eager to understand fully what happened as I was questioning many other historical accounts and interpretations of the Algerian War. Before reading this book, I also couldn't find balanced books that discuss the impact of the war on all Algerians, including French and the Jews. I didn't want to finish reading it but unfortunately it came to an end. I showed it to my students and keep recommending it to my friends.

Although the book went into too many details, it is easy to read as it is cleverly split into different sections. The writing style and the scientific analysis of the events are outstanding. The book also tries to discuss the discrepancies between the claims of the French and the Algerians, such as, for example the number of causalities in different atrocities, including the events of 8th May 1945.

However, I think that there are some issues that are missing and other claims that are difficult to verify. In particular, the book could have included, in addition to the revolts of Emir Abdelkader, the insurrections of Lala Fatma M'Soumeur and El Mokrani, on page 14. The claim that Amirouche has really committed the crime on 13-14 April 1956 in Ihadjedjen (stated on page 173) is controversial as the recent book by Said Saadi "Amirouche : Une vie, deux morts, un testament, une histoire d'Algérie" claims that he was not in the area.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent job

An accessible and thorough history of French involvement in Algeria and the disintegration of that control during the 50's. Read more

Published 24 months ago by anicoll5
5.0 out of 5 starsFRANCES UNDECLARED WAR

A VERY DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE CONFLICT AND THE PROBLEMS THAT FRANCE FACED IN PROSECUTING THE WAR. CODES OF WAR WERE JETISONED BY THE FRENCH TO TRY AND ACHIEVE AN END.

Published on 3 Jan. 2013 by GRAEME
3.0 out of 5 starsInformative but not perfect

This book passed the utility test: after reading it I was much better informed about the Algerian war of independence and I now feel more confident about approaching other records... Read more

Published on 13 Jun. 2012 by AS BUNTING
5.0 out of 5 starsA key book for anyone wanting to understand Algeria

An extremely well researched and objective study of Algeria's turbulent history, and a very good read. Read more

Published on 27 May 2012 by GSB International Consultancy
5.0 out of 5 starsAlgeria explained

'Algeria' is an excellent and important book. The author is an academic, specializing in decolonisaion. Unlike many academic works this is written in a readable style. Read more

Published on 4 May 2012 by Mr. John B. Macmillan
4.0 out of 5 starsClose, but no cigar

Anyone writing in English about the Algerian War does so in the shadow of Alistair Horne's towering 1978 opus A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books... Read more

Published on 25 Mar. 2012 by Mulwharchar

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