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To: Thomas M. who wrote (3883)	4/10/2004 3:48:00 PM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

I'm not angry. I love my fellow man. I abhor bigots, including those who cowardly deny the Holocaust. Have a nice day. RR

To: Thomas M. who wrote (3883)	5/21/2004 12:19:53 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

The French-Algerian war has long stirred in France, the kind of passion that make sober historical inquiry all but impossible. Not surprisingly, the best single survey of the war is by an English journalist, Alistair Horne, whose masterful A Savage War of Peace, published in 1977 , still has no equal in French. Of the approximately three thousand books, fifty films, and twenty documentaries produced in French most have been intensely partisan. In recent years, however, a new and impressive body of work has been assembled by a group of young French historians, many of them born after the war. Their scholarship has been complemented by the important studies of Mohammed Harbi, an exiled Algerian dissident who has subjected the FLN's heroic narrative of the war to a withering critique. The net effect of the new scholarship is to reveal the daunting complexity of the war. For the French-Algerian war contained at least three wars: a civil war between the FLN and rival nationalist groups, a guerrilla war between the FLN and the French army, and a political war among the French. [...] algeria-watch.de