"He brings a long historical perspective and six decades of experience to bear on the affairs of the day." -Salon.com "First the Pentagon plugged the movie, now President Bush is reading the book..."A Savage War of Peace," British historian Alistair Horne's celebrated 1977 account of the [Algerian] war...Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who recommended "A Savage War of Peace" to Bush, said recently on PBS' Charlie Rose Show that he did not believe 'that the French experience could be applied precisely to the United States. But I thought there were enough similarities and enough complexities and enough tragedy for the president to gain a perspective on his own period.'" --"Associated Press" "Anyone interested in Iraq should read this book immediately." --Thomas Ricks, "The Washington Post" "[Horne's] tome is so well written it reads more like a novel but is, in fact, a work of superior historical narrative...There are few historical works that provide
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This is an excellent study of this period in Algerian history - equally valuable to the novice on the subject and those who are more au fait with the subject matter. Reads like a novel
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