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The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic, returned de Gaulle to power, and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict and as many European settlers were driven into exile. Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture.
Nearly a half century has passed since this savagely fought war ended in Algeria’s independence, and yet—as Alistair Horne argues in his new preface to his now-classic work of history—its repercussions continue to be felt not only in Algeria and France, but throughout the world. Indeed from today’s vantage point the Algerian War looks like a full-dress rehearsal for the sort of amorphous struggle that convulsed the Balkans in the 1990s and that now ravages the Middle East, from Beirut to Baghdad—struggles in which questions of religion, nationalism, imperialism, and terrorism take on a new and increasingly lethal intensity.
A Savage War of Peace is the definitive history of the Algerian War, a book that brings that terrible and complicated struggle to life with intelligence, assurance, and unflagging momentum. It is essential reading for our own violent times as well as a lasting monument to the historian’s art.
- Sales Rank: #178822 in Books
- Published on: 1978-03-27
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 20.00" h x 20.00" w x 20.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 604 pages
Review
“He brings a long historical perspective and six decades of experience to bear on the affairs of the day.” –Salon.com
"First the Pentagon plugged the movie, now President Bush is reading the book...A Savage War of Peace, British historian Alistair Horne's celebrated 1977 account of the [Algerian] war...Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who recommended A Savage War of Peace to Bush, said recently on PBS' Charlie Rose Show that he did not believe 'that the French experience could be applied precisely to the United States. But I thought there were enough similarities and enough complexities and enough tragedy for the president to gain a perspective on his own period.'" —Associated Press
"Anyone interested in Iraq should read this book immediately." —Thomas Ricks, The Washington Post
“[Horne’s] tome is so well written it reads more like a novel but is, in fact, a work of superior historical narrative…There are few historical works that provide so comprehensive a treatment of revolutionary and counterinsurgency warfare, domestic and international politics, and economics and ideology.” –Marine Corps Gazette
“When Horne’s book first appeared, it seemed to be an account of one major, but now largely closed, chapter in the history of postwar decolonization. Subsequent developments–in Algeria and elsewhere–have made the past prologue. [It] has become a de facto textbook for American Military officers facing time in Iraq...” —Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed
“This thirty-year-old history, written before the Iranian revolution, the Algerian civil war, and Al Qaeda, captures a contingent moment in the conflict between the West and the Arab world, when present-day dogmas were hardly imagined by most. It provides a much needed reminder that modern history is not made by the ‘clash of civilizations’ but by people.” —Harper’s Magazine
"The present conflict in the Middle East is frighteningly similar, making this book a good volume to have on library shelves. Horne provides a new preface."—Library Journal (Classic Returns)
"[T]he read of choice for many U.S. military officers serving in Iraq...[this] universally acclaimed history...should have been mandatory reading for the civilian and military leaders who opted to invade Iraq" —The Washington Times
“There is enough to make this the most complete history of the Algerian war yet written, one which will be indispensable for future historians. It is compelling reading, filled with intimate detail about characters and situations that have served as inspiration for a dozen novels from The Day of the Jackal on.” –The Los Angeles Times
A “highly readable, toughly edited history that blends the pace and sweep of a work of fiction with a relentless pursuit of every main actor still alive and willing to talk about the war.”–The Washington Post Book World
“Alistair Horne is one of the best writers of history in the English speaking world. A Savage War of Peace shows him at the peak of his powers."–The Financial Times
“An awesome and superlative piece of historical narrative…Mr. Horne has a terrible and tremendous tale to tell, one full of omen for posterity.”–The Times (London)
“An accomplished historian of earlier French wars has written an admirably impartial, lucid and readable book…as full and objective a history of the Algerian war as we are likely to see for some years.” –The New York Times Book Review
“A book of compelling power…magnificent. It has the poetic sense of place without which no great work of history can be written.”–The Spectator
“…brilliantly and compassionately told by an historian whose mastery of this subject is complete.”
–The Washington Post
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About the Author
ALISTAIR HORNE is the author of eighteen previous books, including A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954—1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, How Far from Austerlitz?: Napoleon 1805—1815 and the official biography of British prime minister Harold Macmillan. He is a fellow at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, and lives in Oxfordshire. He was awarded the French Legion d’Honneur in 1993 and received a knighthood in 2003 for his work on French history.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The (gold) standard reference on the Algerian War; scholarly and exhaustive; a hauntingly well-written, objective masterpiece
By Ranger
Alistair Horne's brilliant history of the Algerian War is one of the best books of its kind ever written. And this updated edition is particularly well-packaged and attractive to the modern reader for whom the Algerian War might otherwise be a mere asterisk on the bloody history of mid-twentieth century anti-colonial wars. The cover blurbs on this edition suggest it should have been read by planners prior to the US war in Iraq. Not sure I agree since the Iraq War was no colonial war but a straight up invasion and occupation of a country deemed belligerent to US interests. What made Algeria so unique was the 130 years of back-story in which Algeria was adopted as "an integral part of Metropolitan France." It was a marriage that went sour and the ensuing war pitted brother against brother. Many decorated French Muslim national war heroes fought on both sides; patriotic pied noir Algerians fought both the FLN/Muslims and French government simultaneously; and some of France's greatest military leaders turned on their civilian masters in Paris in order to "save the army," "save French Algeria" and/or "save the Republic." There was nothing quite like it. Some people are dissatisfied with this book because it's "Eurocentric" or "biased against France." This is all nonsense. Horne wrote with the resources available to him. Independent Algeria and it's original "external" leaders were not cooperative sources. Nor were the many French military and civil leaders for whom the war meant humiliation and shame. Horne's approach is as balanced as possible considering his post-conflict sources. Once I reached the events of May 1958, I began reading Larteguy's "The Praetorians" simultaneously with this book. It helped put it all together in a dramatic way. If you have the time and energy, I recommend the same exercise. What most historians miss, although Horne gives all the evidence here, is that the FLN insurrection was nothing more than the resurgence of latent Islamic Jihad against the West -- under the guise of Marxist, Anti-Colonial Nationalism. The FLN took the long view of the war as a continuation of a long struggle against "Christian" Europe. Marxism empowered the non-existent Algerian people to think in terms of a war of national liberation. But Algeria was an artificial construct of the occupying French. It's people were not Algerian but European, Arab or Kabyle (Berber). It was a mixture that French nationalism and culture could never keep together. Today's pan-Islamic radicalism ignores the barriers of nationalism erected around the Muslim world by the Western Powers after the defeat of the Ottomans. In this idea, A Savage War of Peace is a tremendous memoir of the failure of colonialism to "civilize" the Muslim world with European national culture. For this very reason I heartily recommend this book to everyone who wants to understand the resurgence of jihad and Islamic insurrection in the 21st Century.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
ils n'ont rien appris ni rien oublie--They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
By Pen Name
Alistair Horne brings a readable account of the War for Independence in Algeria 1956- 62.
It was a savage and brutal affair,on both sides.Terrorist bombings of civilian targets with mass casualties ;slit throats and mutilated corpses on one side. Indiscriminate bombing,killing and torture of innocents on the other.
What I found most interesting was the growing public revulsion as state sponsored torture became public knowledge in France. The desperate yet successful efforts of the FLN to bring their struggle for Algerian independence to world attention. Good description of French military leadership supplanting civilian government, as well as a less than sympathetic treatment of the the million plus pied-noir population,who eventually lost all due to their intransigence. This account also details the destruction of any liberal agents,both within the Muslim community and the white community This destruction of all of those who might seek to compromise and seek a rational accommodation with their opponents permitted the development of extremism on both the FLN and French side.The brutality of both sides and the internecine struggle and assassinations within the various Arab/non Arab groups within the emerging leadership of the FLN,is well told in non-lurid prose.
This is all so depressingly familiar today. In Iraq as the Sunni's attempt to recoup their losses to the (Now) ruling Shiites. ISIS's beheading videos,individual acts of Palestinian terrorism on Israeli buses-inept politicians worsening the brew with short sighted and narcissistic posturing.
The revelation of torture by the French military in Algeria caused strong revulsion in France-compare this to the US publics brief response to documented torture by the US government of Guantanamo captives.....
This is an extremely well written and readable account of a war for independence AND an ongoing civil war.
The reader will inevitably draw comparisons between 1958 Algeria and today. The same contentious arguments and counter-arguments present 60 years ago amongst the French,French Algerians,and the "native" Arab population, have an encore in the first 2 decades of the 21st century. It is all sad testimony to the fact that mankind (or at least its leaders) ls n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié--They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing. This account of the Algerian struggle is as relevant today as it was 60-plus years ago.
The authors narrative is well-paced,and easy to follow. The 1966 film " Battle of Algiers" offers a tense dramatic(and only semi-fictional) introduction to Alistairs Hornes book,which is occasionally referred to in the text.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
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By john R.
A book from a good historian writer. Sometimes has the British tendency to pick on the French while forgetting that the Brits were just as bad, or sometimes worse, colonists. Nevertheless the author relies on chronological facts in an excellent way for this last struggle of France's attempt to preserve a colony. I was there in Great Kabylia, conscripted two and half years in the marines, during the later part of the war. We rebelled in vain against De Gaulle and his mignons imposing stupid edicts towards the native population.
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