The War in Algeria - Jules Roy - Paperback

Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Blurb: “By Jules RoyIntroduction by David SchoenbrunTranslated by Richard HowardIn the summer of 1960 Jules Roy, a distinguished novel its and playwright, an ex-colonel in the French Air Force, and a third-generation French-Algerian, returned to his war-torn native land in an attempt to "dig into the dungpile" of the bitter six-year-old struggle. The resulting book, which appeared in the late fall of 1960 in France, became an immediate best-seller, and caused more controversy than any book published that year.Uniquely qualified by his background to write thisbook, Roy visited his family and friends, a number oftypical Algerian towns ravaged by the long war of attrition, went on a night patrol along the barbed-wire andmine-laden Algerian-Tunisian border, and visited refugee camps in Tunisia. From his observations and recorded conversations with people on both sides emerges a document which is undoubtedly the most moving and