August 2021 Issue Richard Vinen Behind the Cactus Plants War in the Mountains: Peasant Society and Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1918–1958 By Neil MacMaster LR
December 2020 Issue Richard Vinen The Devil’s Crop The Blood of the Colony: Wine and the Rise and Fall of French Algeria By Owen White LR
December 2007 Issue Paul Legg Don’t Be Fooled Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed By Martin Evans and John Phillips LR
May 2014 Issue Sudhir Hazareesingh Liberty, Equality, Enmity The French Intifada: The Long War between France and Its Arabs By Andrew Hussey LR
May 2013 Issue Andrew Hussey Stranger in His Own Land Algerian Chronicles By Albert Camus (edited by Alice Kaplan; translated by Arthur Goldhammer) LR
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