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Interviewed for the July, 1956, issue of Réalités, the French Minister-Resident for Algeria, Robert Lacoste, remarked that the local population, considering that the French had suffered ‘surrender following surrender’, might have been led to believe that France would lose the struggle then being waged in Algeria. ‘However, we held on’, he laconically concluded.1 For many years to come, until 1962 to be exact, the French continued to do that, in face of growing Muslim resistance, in response to itensifying settler determination, and in the hope of avoiding another outcome like that of Indochina.
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For a critical interpretation, see Jacques Berque, French North Africa: The Magrib Between Two World Wars (New York, 1967).
On the history of the Suez incident, see Robert.R. Bowie, Suez, 1956 (New York, 1964);
Wm. Roger Louis, Suez (New York, 1987).
On general political developments in the country, see David Ling, Tunisia: From Protectorate to Republic (Bloomington, 1967);
Nora Salem, Bourguiba and the Creation of Tunisia, (Dover, N.H., 1984).
On France in Morocco, see John Halstead, Rebirth of a Nation: The Origins and Rise of Moroccan Nationalism, 1832–44 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967);
Douglas Ashford, Political Change in Morocco (Princeton, 1961);
Simone Lacouture, Le Maroc à l’épreuve (Paris: 1968).
On the French colonial situation in Algeria, see Tony Smith, The French Stake in Algeria, 1945–1962 (Ithaca, 1978);
Vincent Confer, France and Algeria: The Problems of Civil and Political Reform in Algeria, 1870–1930 (Syracuse, 1966);
David Gordon, The Passing of French Algeria (London, 1966).
A well-written book on the Algerians and their place in the French colonial scheme of things is Pierre Bourdieu, The Algerians, trans. Alan C. M. Ross (Boston, 1962).
On the Algerian politics of the Fourth and Fifth Republics, see Dorothy Pickles, Algeria and France: From Colonialism to Cooperation (New York, 1963).
On the Algerian War, see Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 (London, 1972);
Michael T. Clark, Algeria in Turmoil: A History of the Rebellion (New York, 1959);
John E. Talbert, War Without a Name: France in Algeria, 1954–1962 (New York, 1980).
This important development is analysed in Paul Clay Sorum, Intellectuals and the Decolonization of France (Chapel Hill, 1977), Chapter V: ‘Terror in Algeria’.
This is the subject of the remarkable, prize-winning Italian film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, The Battle of Algiers, 1967.
Germain Tillion, France and Algeria: Complementary Enemies, trans. Richard Howard (New York, 1961), pp. 4–5.
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Betts, R.F. (1991). Accumulating Failure: Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. In: France and Decolonisation 1900–1960. The Making of 20th Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27933-3_8
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