Algeria: France's Undeclared War

Algeria: France's Undeclared War
ISBN-10
0192803506
ISBN-13
9780192803504
Series
Algeria
Category
History
Pages
457
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Martin Evans

Description

The first full account for a generation of the war against French colonialism in Algeria, setting out the long-term causes of the war from the French occupation of Algeria in 1830 onwards

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