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“De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: “One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!” — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
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“In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another.” — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
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“Myself, and the majority of officers in a position of command, will not execute unconditionally the orders of the Head of State.” — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Qu’importe si cent mille coups de fusil partent en Afrique! L’Europe ne les entend pas. Louis-Philippe, 1835” — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: “One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!” — Alistair Horne Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
