The Battle Of Algiers Xavier De Weirt Mathieu Beaud Carly Probert Transl by Xavier De Weirt, Mathieu Beaud, Carly Probert (transl.) 9782806273178, 280627317X instant download after payment.

In the summer of 1956, the center of Algiers was shaken by a series of terrorist attacks by the FLN which, wanting to destabilize French society and demonstrate to the world the legitimacy of its fight for independence, aimed for the center of French power in Algeria. Directly threatened, France decided to fight back and on 7th January 1957, the troops of General Jacques Massu entered the kasbah of Algiers, a Muslim neighborhood where nearly 75,000 individuals resided. There, the French soldiers defended themselves by leading a war against insurgency, using techniques that were developed by studying the Viet Minh (Vietnamese political and paramilitary organization) during the Indochina War (1946-1954).

While the deadly bombings of the FLN multiplied, thus radicalizing the French population in Algeria even more, French paratroopers and commandos identified, searched, questioned, imprisoned, tortured and killed in order to dismantle the terrorist resistance network. The battle ended in October 1957 with the arrest of the most influential members, marking the dismantling of the FLN, and temporarily ending the violence. Although the Battle of Algiers was only a short episode of the conflict, it would serve to denounce the abuses committed by France in its struggle to keep Algeria French. Indeed, cornered by critics, the government decided, under the authority of Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), to abandon the fighting and, on 18th March 1962, France signed the Evia