A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (148 page)

Wilde, Oscar,
46

wine industry,
32
,
46
,
51
,
56
,
62
,
539

women: dress of Kabyle and Chaouia,
49
; toughness of Algerian,
50
; veiled and recluse Muslim,
50–1
; and racial prejudice,
54–5
; enfranchisement of Muslim,
69
; in Battle of Algiers,
185–6
; Tillion and Fanon on Muslim,
401
; in guerrilla war,
402
; in peace,
403
; emancipation,
559

Wu, Robin,
17

Wuillaume Report,
197

Yacef, Saadi,
184
,
167
,
183–7
,
191–4
,
208–9
,
211–18
,
222
,
251
,
259–60
,
264
,
270
,
306
,
314
,
390
,
401–2
,
413
,
490
,
555
,
563

Yacine, Kateb,
27

Yazid, M’hamed,
245
,
61
,
71
,
130–1
,
219
,
246–7
,
250
,
316–17
,
321
,
425
,
464–5
,
470
,
496
,
511

Yéti, Châlet du,
510–15
,
519

Yugoslavia,
129
,
175
,
262
,
406
,
513
,
559

Yugoslav partisans,
14
,
135

Yveton, Fernand,
137–8
,
204

Z.A.A. (Zone Autonome d’Alger),
184
,
194
,
260
,
413
,
531

Zabane, Ahmed,
153
,
183
,
185

Zavatta, Achille,
366

Zeller, Marie-André,
152
,
426
,
441
,
444
,
448–52
,
456
,
458–9
,
462
,
527
,
552

Zéralda,
201
,
371
,
426–7
,
448–9
,
458–9
,
481
,
563

Zerrari, Rabah,
see
Azedine

Zibri, Colonel,
557

Zighout, Youssef,
118–19
,
144
,
225

zones, interdites, d’opérations, de pacification
,
166
,
186
.

This is a New York Review Book

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Copyright © 1977, 1987, 1996, 2006 by Alistair Horne

All rights reserved.

Cover photograph: Algerian demonstrators in the Belcourt neighborhood of Algiers protesting a visit by Charles de Gaulle, 1960; Keystone/Gamma

Cover design: Katy Homans

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Horne, Alistair.

A savage war of peace : Algeria, 1954–1962 / by Alistair Horne ; preface by

Alistair Horne.

p. cm. — (New York Review Books classics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Algeria—History—Revolution, 1954–1962. I. Title: Algeria, 1954–1962. II.

Title. III. Series.

DT295.H64 2006

965’.046—dc22

2006003506

eISBN 978-1-59017-481-4
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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Illustrations

Map of Algeria

Map of Algiers

Preface

PART ONE Prelude 1830–1954

1 “A Town of no Great Interest”

2 “ Ici, c’est la France ”

3 In the Middle of the Ford

PART TWO The War 1954–1958

4 All Saint’s Day, 1954

5 The Sorcerer’s Cauldron

6 The FLN: From Bandung to Soummam

7 The Second Fronts of Guy Mollet

8 “Why We Must Win”

9 The Battle of Algiers

10 Lost Round for the FLN

11 The World Takes Notice

12 Le Dernier Quart d’Heure

PART THREE The Hardest of All Victories 1958–1962

13 A Kind of Resurrection

14 “ Je Vous Ai Compris ”

15 The FLN Holds Its Breath

16 Neither the Djebel nor the Night

17 “ Aux Barricades! ”

18 “This Prince of Ambiguity”

19 Revolution in the Revolution

20 De Gaulle Caught in the Draught

21 The Generals’ Putsch

22 Overtures for Peace

23 The Suitcase or the Coffin

24 Exodus

25 The Page Is Turned

Afterword

Colonel Godard’s Organogram

Political and Military Abbreviations

Chronology

Bibliography

Reference Notes

Glossary

Index

Copyright