The Algerian War 1954-62 was one of the most prolonged and violent examples of decolonization. At times horribly savage, it was an undeclared war in the sense that no formal declaration of hostilities was ever made. Bringing to an end 132 years of French rule, the Algerian struggle caused the fall o[...]
This is the first full-length study in English of the career of one of Franceâs most controversial military leaders, General Maurice Gamelin (1872â1958). Gamelin was reviled by many of his contemporaries and denigrated by historians as âthe man who lost the Battle of Franceâ. Her[...]