Special Dossier: THE ALGERIAN WAR
Special Dossier: THE ALGERIAN WAR

Special Dossier: THE ALGERIAN WAR

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  • The ordeal of French soldiers, prisoners of the Algerian army, forced to march day and night, to sleep in hollows on bare ground, or to live in natural underground galleries for months on end.
  • The shooting of 26 March 1962 in Algiers, in which the French army fired on a peaceful demonstration by pieds-noirs, killing 80 people and wounding 200. The families have still not succeeded in having an inquiry opened. ..
  • The abandonment of the Harkis by France and the murder of 140,000 of them by the Algerian army.
  • The abductions of French and pro-French Algerian military personnel and civilians: 25,000 people whose bodies were never recovered. ...
  • The massacre of 2,000 French and pro-French Algerians in a single day in Oran, on 5 July 1962. The discovery of the bodies in the slaughterhouses, drained of their blood. ...
  • The secret agreement between the French government and the Algerian independence movement (FLN), aimed at pushing the pieds-noirs to flee Algeria in a desperate scramble. 

 

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Author 1
Raphaël Delpard
Publication date
2022
Pages
313
Cover
Paperback
Format
15.5 cm × 23.5 cm
Language
French
Publisher
Les Editions de l'Histoire

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