Read A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 Online
Authors: Alistair Horne
Tags: #History, #Politics, #bought-and-paid-for, #Non-Fiction, #War
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (42 page)
9.
Below right:
Belkacem Krim.
10. Pierre Mendès-France (left) and Edouard Daladier.
11. Paul Delouvrier.
12. Jacques Soustelle.
13. Guy Mollet.
14. General Maurice Challe.
15. General Jacques Massu.
16.
Above:
Bigeard’s paras in their “lizard” headgear march into Algiers.
17, 18.
Below:
The Battle of Algiers, 1957.
Left:
Paras in the Rue Caton, searching for Saadi Yacef and his fellow-insurgents.
Right:
The house in the Casbah where Ali la Pointe hid, after its destruction by the French forces.
19.
Above:
1958. The Provisional Government of the Algerian Revolution (G.P.R.A.) is proclaimed in Cairo.
Left to right:
Ben Youssef Ben Khedda, M’hamed Yazid (with arm outstretched), Ferhat Abbas, the first Prime Minister, Lakhdar Ben Tobbal.
20.
Below:
1958. Generals Massu (left, in beret) and Salan (at microphone) with Jacques Soustelle after the formation of the Committee of Public Safety in Algiers.
21.
Above:
De Gaulle’s first Algerian visit, 1958 Mobbed by euphoric Muslims, French soldiers and
pieds noirs
alike.
22.
Below:
Muslim labourers constructing the Morice Line along the Tunisian border.
