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It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europe's media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup d'etat; it destroyed thousands of careers; bitterly divided the French military and political classes for a generation; and sent hundreds of thousands of European settler families into often ruinous exile. This title details the history, organisation, equipment and uniforms of the forces involved. ... Read more

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Lessons for Afghanistan and Iraq
This is a conflict that France obsesses over like America does Vietnam. It reflects a loss on many levels and will be debated for decades. Currently, the Algerian conflict offers lessons for insurgencies and terrorist actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. I am fan overall of Osprey and their library of titles. For me they act as a great introduction to a piece of history that often prompts me to research and read more deeply on the subject. And that happened in this case as the Algerian conflict is fascinating. I have been trying to get my hands on France and the Algerian War by Alexander to continue my follow-up.

Excellent Reference on this Brutal War
This book is an excellent reference for anyone seeking quick information on the Algerian War.Mr. Windrow does a fine job of synthesizing this long and complicated conflict into its basic elements.The book is a short 48 pages and done in the traditional format of the Osprey Men-at-Arms series.

It contains over three dozen black and white photos of the Algerian landscape, French paratroopers, and fighters of the Army of National Liberation (ALN).The ALN was the military wing of the FLN, which was the political organization.The book also contains eight color plates with three figures per plate.Each figure represents a different uniform from either the French or the ALN.Each figure is clearly drawn and the plates provide excellent color companions to the black and white photos found throughout the book.At the end of the book, each illustrated figure is described in detail.In some cases, however, the narrative is too detailed and thus, extremely tedious reading.

The second chapter provides a helpful summary of the entire war.This chapter is a quick chronological reference to all significant events in the war, such as the Battle of Algiers, the Battle of the Frontiers, the Challe Plan offensive, and the Barricades Week.

Subsequent chapters provide a breakdown of the ALN and how it was deployed over six geographic areas known as Wilayas.The author then does the same for the French forces.He first describes the poorly trained Sector troops.The author then discusses the General Reserve, more commonly knows as "Les Paras."These mobile interventionist forces came from two Parachute Divisions.Mr. Windrow ends the main section of the book with a description of the 1961 mutiny in the French army.This mutiny had a significant affect on the final outcome of the war.

This book will not provide the reader with any significant understanding of the conflict.It will, however, serve as an excellent complement to other books on the topic.The author makes reference to Alistair Horne's: A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-62.Mr. Horne's book is often cited as the definitive story of this war.Bottom line: when read in conjunction with a more comprehensive work on the Algerian War, this book provides an excellent reference guide to the significant events and the military forces engaged in the conflict

The Last War of French Decolonization
After the Lost of Indochina,Algeria became more interested the need of independence but for some Algeria was the Jewel of the Emperie and specially for the Troops that have been their second nation like the French Foreign Legion who have fight for 134 years, many muslin were pro-french but with the pass of time the pressure for Muslim rights,internal self goverment,independence, or even complete integration with France had long been building up among the small but significant academic and professional class which had benefited from the French education.

The post-war French loss of Syria and Lebano,military reverse in Indochina and events in Tunisia and Morocco all prepared the ground for rebellion in Algeria.

The ALN try to emulated the VIETMINH, but never enjoyed the VIETMINH'S greatest asset, an area they could control and in which they could hide up and remain secure.

After 8 years of war on March 1962 a cease-fire was finally arranged between government and FLN representatives at Evian, France. In the long-awaited referendum, held the following July, Algeria voted overwhelmingly for independence. The colons began a mass evacuation; before the end of the year most of them had left the country.

Martin Windrow come again with another title dedicated to another War of French Decolonization(check The French Indochina War 1946-54 MMA322)this time we enter the Algerian War in North Africa, with a quick overview of the war and a summary of main eventes between 1954-1962, I like the comments on The Army of National Liberation(Command Structure)and the French Army in Algeria with all their troops from Zouaves to Natives,a part dedicated to the Mutiny of April and Select Bibliography(Small)

The Book is small but help me see the War in a Quick look,with good photos and superb colour artwork by Mike Chappell. we can see the ANL and the French Amry Uniforms in Color(great plates on General Marcel Bigeard famous for the torture of Algerians)

For more books on the Wars of Decolonization see Anthony Clayton "The Wars of French Decolonization" and "France, Soldiers, and Africa" thsi two title one dedicated to the French Troops in Africa from 1830 to 1962 and the other to the Wars of Liberation of the Colonial Rule Tunisia, Madagascar, Morocco, Indochina and Algeria. Martin Windrow is the author of 5 books on the French Army, French Foreign Legion 1914-45, The French Indochina War 1946-54, French Foreign Legion-Infantry and Cavalry since 1945 and French Foreign Legion Paratroops all from Osprey military History Books.

For books on the Algerian War, The Battle of the Casbah by Paul Aussaressess, The Memory of Resistance by Martin Evans,The French Foreign Legion by Douglas Porch, All the major operations in the Algerian War and The Algerian War and the French Army, 1954-62 by Martin S. Alexander, The Movie of Anthony Quinn The Lost Command(1966) is dedicated to Algeria and the another movie "The Battle of Algiers" is also a great story on the War and the violent counter-terrorist measures use by the French Army. Athony Clayton also have another book dedicated to the Post War Era but explore all the major conflict only in Africa,"Frontiersmen-Warfare in Africa since 1950"

Recommended reading mtrl.
This title in the Osprey Men At Arms series covers the war in Algeria 1954-1962. The book is well written and covers both sides. It's also a sort of a "companion" to the other MAA titles like The French ForeginLegion 1945 - ... and The French War In Indochina which are also written bythe same author.

In short, if you are interested in colonial wars like meor in the French Foregin Legion it`s a book you should have. ... Read more

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In this pioneering book, Irwin M. Wall unravels the intertwining threads of the protracted agony of France's war with Algeria, the American role in the fall of the Fourth Republic, the long shadow of Charles de Gaulle, and the decisive postwar power of the United States. At the heart of this study is an incisive analysis of how Washington helped bring de Gaulle to power and a penetrating revisionist account of his Algerian policy. Departing from widely held interpretations of the Algerian War, Wall approaches the conflict as an international diplomatic crisis whose outcome was primarily dependent on French relations with Washington, the NATO alliance, and the United Nations, rather than onmilitary engagement.

Wall makes extensive use of previously unexamined documents from the Department of State, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and heretofore secret files of the Archives of the French Army at Vincennes and the Colonial Ministry at Aix-en-Provence. He argues convincingly that de Gaulle always intended to keep Algeria French, in line with his goal to make France the center of a reorganized French union of autonomous but depen- dent African states and the heart of a Europe of cooperating states. Such a union, which the French called Eurafrica, would further France's chance to be an equal partner with Britain and the United States in a reordered "Free World."

In recent years the Algerian War has reclaimed its place in popular memory in France. Its interpreters have continued to view the conflict as a national, internal drama and de Gaulle as the second-time savior who ended French participation in a ruinous colonial war. But by analyzing the conflict in terms of French foreign policy, Wall shows the pivotal role of the United States and counters certain political myths that portray de Gaulle as an emancipator of colonial peoples. Wall's interpretation of the Algerian conflict may well spark controversy and will open important new avenues of debate concerning postwar international affairs. ... Read more

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The International Angles of an Insurgency
Professor Wall's book is not so much about the Algerian national struggle against France, per se.Indeed, the Algerian National Liberation Front receives only passing attention in the book.(If you want a book on the Algerian insurgency, I recommend of course Alistair Horne's book.)Rather, Wall's focus is on the American effort to manage its relationship with France, and beyond France with NATO, despite the strains put on those ties due to the war in Algeria.As such, this is a diplomatic history, and it is a very good one.It is much less involved and less biographical than David Halberstam's "Best and the Brightest" about Vietnam, but both authors excel at explaining how policy is developed and implemented.Wall's book has the advantage of covering topic very few English speakers know much about.

Professor Wall's meticulous research through secret reports from 45 - 55 years ago shows how American leaders and diplomats tried to synthesize an approach that loyal to American principles calling for self-determination in the Third World without undermining a French ally determined to keep its prized colony.He explains how the Americans carefully weighed their political support to the French in venues such as the United Nations to help prevent the French Fourth Republic from collapsing under international condemnation.His description of the confrontations between France and newly independent Morocco and Tunisia, and how the U.S. intervened to prevent the Algerian conflict from spreading or pushing the moderates in Tunisia to bail and turn to the USSR and Egypt's Nasser are revealing.Later Wall assesses carefully the changes when DeGaulle came to power in 1958, putting forward a relationship in DeGaulle's mind between the sustained French effort to hold onto Algeria and French support for the American-led NATO alliance.

This is not a detailed assessment of broader French or American foreign policy; its focus is very much the friction between the U.S. and France over the conflict in Algeria. However, for those interested in seeing how day-to-day diplomatic work is undertaken, the readouts of once highly secret meetings between ambassadors, presidents and foreign ministers is rich indeed.

I found the writing and presentation easy to understand.My only problem with the text itself was the many names of officials in the U.S., France, Britain, the USSR and in North Africa.A glossary of names and positions attached to the text would have made tracking who was driving an issue against whom a bit easier to follow.

Was de Gaulle as arrogant as he appeared?
The material is well researched & the story is told with tightly reasoned clarity & in lucid prose.The specialized subject is covered in great depth, and Dr. Wall's backward look at the events of the late 50's & 60's is of great help in sorting them out.Their interest is further enhanced by contemporary tie-ins such as the Arab world & the Middle East today, & by their association with the American tragedy that was Viet Nam.I particularly enjoyed the analysis of motivation & intent of the western politicians & de Gaulle.The irony of all that careful planning & diplomacy, which came to nothing, yet, everything seemed to work out for the best anyway.So de Gaulle appears a seer & it's better to be lucky than smart.

Competent, kind of dull
Irwin Wall's book on American relations with France during the Algerian war of independence is a sequel to his book on how America supported (and manipulated) France during the Fourth Republic.It is not as interesting as that book, but it provides a workmanlike overview of the problem.It shows the Eisenhower Administration in its best light (it has much less to say about Kennedy).Overall Eisenhower was an intelligent man, much more so than was thought at the time, and he was personally decent, in striking contrast to most of his successors.But his administration was deeply unimaginative and unsympathetic and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, was extremely narro-minded and dogmatic, very bad qualities for a diplomat.Notwithstanding these problems, the Americans soon realized that the French could not suppress the FLN and that ultimately autonomy and independence were inevitable. Here Eisenhower and Dulles are in their best light, tactfully offering advice to a French government that will not lessen, not (for once) being hoodwinked by the claims of the French to be fighting communism, and making their own contacts with the FLN.They are properly angry over the British-French-Israeli aggression at Suez, and understandably disturbed over the French attack on Sakiet, Tunisia, where it is not clear whether the army or the government is in control.Given the unreliability of the government they decide that it would not be that bad an idea for De Gaulle to take power and inaugurate the fifth French Republic.

Much of this book narrowly reads the available diplomatic materials and often reads as a paraphrase of rather inconclusive discussions between the Americans, the French and the British on such questions as Algeria, trying to revamp NATO to increase French power (unsuccessfully), and the question of a French nuclear deterrent.Wall does have an important new thesis:in contrast to the hagiography around De Gaulle, he argues that the president did not in fact plan in 1958 to eventually give Algeria independence, but in fact wanted to keep it as French as possible.Unfortunately for the reader, the book is more than half over by the time he encounters this.The thesis is interesting and is certainly plausible; De Gaulle did appear to wish to cover Algeria in new euphemisms for dependence.And if true, it would mean that De Gaulle prolonged the war with worse results than if the government had stared down the military rebels in 1958.Still it is not definitive, since De Gaulle spoke different things to different people.Wall's verdict on De Gaulle's foreign policy is largely negative, since he achieved very little.Wall does make the interesting comment that by concentrating on the prestige item of nuclear weapons, De Gaulle failed to modernize conventional forces which would have made France more effective in a post cold-war Europe.One problem with this book is that Wall is somewhat repetitive.Another, and more serious problem, is that one learns relatively little about the partner in America's negotiations.The contrast with Walter Lafeber's The Clash on Japan, or Piero Gleijeses' Shattered Hope on Guatemala, or Neil Sheehan's A Bright Shining Lie on Vietnam is striking.There is some interesting information on France; there is much less, however on Algeria itself.

Not this time!
Why can't American Marxists leave Marxist interpretations to Frenchmen?Tbey are much better at it. ... Read more