She often met undercover with a harki – an Algerian working with the French army – who was sympathetic to the FLN cause, to ...

who commanded a real army (which had inflicted the disastrous defeat on the French at Dien Bien Phu) but who secured only half of the territory of Indochina-the part, moreover, which he already ...

About a thousand French historians, men and women, from different political backgrounds, have signed an article warning their ...

and deals with the Algerian campaign in a curious (and not very exciting) fashion, as though the French army there were Larteguy's model army. The book is very largely made up of conversations ...

DENIS CHARLET / AFP Between Algeria ... Army, a paramilitary terrorist organization during the Algerian war, opposed to Algeria's independence from France) members to join its ranks? Such "French ...

The French Army of course was similarly seen enacting actions of extreme violence against the oppressed Algerian people. Whether public summary executions, extreme acts of prejudice, or horrid ...

Then, it would seem, only eight per cent of the Algerian population has been able to hold off the French army for six years--and yet that army is the largest ever employed in a colonial war.

I was under the orders of the French army. When we first arrived in Algeria, the Algerians didn't want to shoot us, because we were black people - we were their brothers. But when they realised ...

The colonial army, its settler militias and police responded ... a scholar of the gendered history of the French-Algerian war “In November and December, … the response to mass protests ...

French soldiers, fresh off their four year occupation by the Germans, catch a terminal case of Dien Bien Flu. 17 - Algerian rebellion - Lost. First time an Arab army has beaten a Western army since ...

"Algeria, like other North African countries, [is an] important [market] for French companies and exporters ... Jean-Marie, a former army officer accused of torturing Algerians during the war ...