Qu’importe si cent mille coups de fusil partent en…

“Myself, and the majority of officers in a position of command, will not execute unconditionally the orders of the Head of State.”

— Alistair Horne

“In real life “Boisfeuras” had his opposite number in Colonel Antoine Argoud, another para whose extremity in belief and deed were to bring him…

— Alistair Horne

“One of my earliest surprises in Algiers was that in the Casbah, where the highly emotive Battle of Algiers had been waged against Massu’s…

— Alistair Horne

“Consulting de Gaulle whether he should be present at the flag-lowering ceremony or not, Fouchet after a pause of several seconds had been told…

— Alistair Horne

“In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and demanding justice.…

— Alistair Horne

“From the Inquisition to the Gestapo and the “Battle of Algiers,” history teaches us that, in the production of reliable intelligence, regardless of the…

— Alistair Horne

“The sun beams down on Algiers — but the inhabitants do not smile back. It is a surly city, harrowed by the stresses of…

— Alistair Horne

“the prosperity gap between very rich and very poor in France was less than that between the handful of most affluent grands colons of…

— Alistair Horne

“General Jacques de Bollardière, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as well as…

— Alistair Horne

“One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

“De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: “One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!”

— Alistair Horne

“We shall not have the Algerians with us, if they do not want that themselves… The era of the European administration of the indigenous…

— Alistair Horne

“Monsieur le Gouverneur-Général, you reason in the French of France, but we reason in the French of Algeria.” It was not at all the…

— Alistair Horne

“The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power. Albert Camus”

— Alistair Horne