Algeria
 Was one of France's most formidable opponents to its expansion in North Africa secretly aided and abetted by British guns? John King looks at a tangled tale of nineteenth-century Algeria. |
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Football became a potent expression of Algeria’s struggle for independence, never more so than during the dramatic events that preceded the 1958 World Cup, as Martin Evans explains. Published in History Today, Volume: 60 Issue: 7, 2010
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Martin Evans looks at the events of 1956 and the French war on terror, both at home and elsewhere, and how this was a turning point for French fortunes in the Algerian War of Independence. Published in History Today, Volume: 56 Issue: 12
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On November 1st, 1954, an insurrection broke out in Algeria. |
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Martin Evans on witnesses from the Battle of Algiers, forty years on - and their contribution to the debate on contemporary history. |
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Martin Evans looks at the aftermath of the struggle for Algerian independence from France. |
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Martin Evans has tracked down and interviewed many of those who helped the Algerian FLN - and outlines here the links between the experience of resistance to the Nazis and the struggle against colonial rule. |
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Was one of France's most formidable opponents to its expansion in North Africa secretly aided and abetted by British guns? John King looks at a tangled tale of nineteenth-century Algeria. |
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