Volume 25, Number 7 · May 4, 1978
The Morose Revolution
By Neal Ascherson
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne
Macmillan, 604 pp., $19.95
At midday on March 19, 1962, the cease-fire came into effect and finished the seven-year war between the French and the Algerians. I was sitting at a table in a tiny Moslem café on the edge of the Algiers Casbah. There were two other men at the table, both responsables of the FLN. The glasses of mint tea cooled in front of us and we watched the clock.
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