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Article: De Gaulle and Algeria: 1940-1960.
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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IN TIMES of crisis, all great republics have someone they can call on to save the day. The Romans had the Graccis, America had Washington, Ireland had Collins, and France, twice, had Charles de Gaulle.
Kettle painstakingly charts how and why France turned to de Gaulle when the Algerian problem threatened the future of French society. Algeria, suggests Kettle, threatened to tear France apart as surely as the Nazis had. Only de Gaulle was strong enough to save it either time.
Drawing on voluminous papers from the British Embassy in Paris, and of the Consulate-General in Algiers, Kettle offers a brilliantly detailed account of the war in Algeria until 1960 (after ...