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Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

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The book is worthy to stand next to Alistair Horne's classic "A Savage War of Peace" in the bibiliography of books about this fascinating country with a tragic history. Not only does it clearly describe the war for independence in the 50's and 60's, but it also provides a very readalbe acount of the extreme violence the country witnessed in the 1990's. It also provides some interesting lessons that we could apply to our involvelement in Iraq.

Very readable and highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the region or Algeria specifically.

Great Thanks to John Philips and Martin Evans for the quality of this study. They succeeded to give a global vision of a complicated conflict which has deep roots in the regional history. Furthermore,they kept an ability to go into the more important details. We find a lot of anecdote along the study that helps a non native to understand the subtilities of the local caracter and visions. I didn't find such a synthesis, even in the french literature.

Grand merci aux auteurs pour leur analyse perspicasse et leur honnęteté intellectuelle. Ils ont su donner une vision globale du conflit actuel et mettre en évidence des causes qui plongent leurs racines dans l'histoire de la région, tout en gardant un soucis du détail remarquable; le récit est jalonné d'anecdotes instructives et parlantes. Il n'y a pas, à ma connaissance, d'équivalent à cet ouvrage dans la bibliographie francophone.

* Three maps
* Seventeen plates
* Helpful Arabic glossary
* Twenty two pages of footnotes
* Seven page bibliography

Chapters four to eight focus on post-1988 Algeria.

Bite-sized chapters; longest is 41 pages.