![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Nearly half a century has passed since this savagely fought war ended in Algeria’s independence, and yet its repercussions continue to be felt not only in Algeria and France but throughout the world. ![]() Above all, the war was marked by an unholy marriage of revolutionary terror and repressive torture. More than a million Muslim Algerians died in the conflict, and as many European settlers were driven into exile. 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. The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. ![]()
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