My Battle of Algiers A Memoir

Name: My Battle of Algiers A Memoir
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ISBN: 9780060852245

ISBN-10: 0060852240

ISBN-13: 9780060852245

Edition: N/A

Authors: Ted Morgan

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In My Battle of Algiers, an eminent historian and biographer recounts his own experiences in the savage Algerian War, an event all too reminiscent of America's present difficulties in Iraq. Ted Morgan recalls a war that we would do well not to forget. A Yale graduate who had grown up in both France and America -- he was then known as Sanche de Gramont and was then a French citizen -- he was drafted into the French Army and served in Algeria 1956 and '57. In this memoir, Morgan relives the harrowing conflict in which every Arab was considered a terrorist -- and increasingly, many were. As a newly minted second lieutenant, he spends months in the back country -- the bled -- where…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English



Preface





Introduction: A Child's History of Algeria


How I Went to War


Les Classes


In the Bled





Introduction: How the War Moved from the Bled to Algiers


The First Battle of Algiers


Between Battles


The Second Battle of Algiers


My End Game


Epilogue


Index