title: Challenging De Gaulle: The O.A.S and the Counter-Revolution in Algeria, 1954-1962
author: Alexandr Harrison
description: "The best account in English to date of the Organization Armee Secrete (OAS) during the French-Algerian war, 1945-1962. Besides using earlier works like Geoffrey Bocca's The Secret Army (CH, May '69), Hamilton has collected a voluminous amount of oral testimony concerning this period. The book is a very informative account of the Algerian War based almost solely on these primary sources. A clear explanation of the bitter struggle between the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale and the OAS is presented with all of its death, torture, and terror. Indeed, the French forces in Algeria became a serious threat to the government of President Charles De Gaulle. Several assassination attempts were made against the French president. De Gaulle described the OAS as "thugs consumed by totalitarian passion . . ." Not only is this work a valuable source for North African specialists, it will also appeal to undergraduates and general readers.--"-Choice<br /><br />." . . Harrison's book is an important contribution to the history of the end of the French Empire. Obviously, normal documentation is very limited. So oral history comes into its own. . . ."-Times Higher Educational Supplement<br /><br />?. . . Harrison's book is an important contribution to the history of the end of the French Empire. Obviously, normal documentation is very limited. So oral history comes into its own. . . .?-Times Higher Educational Supplement<br /><br />?The best account in English to date of the Organization Armee Secrete (OAS) during the French-Algerian war, 1945-1962. Besides using earlier works like Geoffrey Bocca's The Secret Army (CH, May '69), Hamilton has collected a voluminous amount of oral testimony concerning this period. The book is a very informative account of the Algerian War based almost solely on these primary sources. A clear explanation of the bitter struggle between the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale and the OAS is presented with all of its death, torture, and terror. Indeed, the French forces in Algeria became a serious threat to the government of President Charles De Gaulle. Several assassination attempts were made against the French president. De Gaulle described the OAS as "thugs consumed by totalitarian passion . . ." Not only is this work a valuable source for North African specialists, it will also appeal to undergraduates and general readers.--?-Choice<br /><br />"This remarkable book . . . the first fully documented history of the OAS . . . based on a wealth of oral testimony and unpublished documentary sources. (Alexander Harrison) writes with insight."-L. H. Gann Hoover Institution<br /><br />"A fascinating account of the fighters for a lost cause -- full of the brutalities and warped heroism which characterized the attempts to keep algeria French, after France decided that it be French no longer."-William Colby, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency
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  The Palestinian Resistance 
  Girard ChaJiand, history teacher and specialist in 
  underdeveloped countries, was born in Brussels in 1934, 
  although he is now a French citizen. He studied at the 
  National School of Oriental Languages in Paris. Formerly 
  editor and assistant manager of the Algerian weekly 
  Revolution Africaine (1963), Gerard Chaliand is the author 
  of L' A.lgt!rie est e//e socialiste? (1964) and Lutte armee 
  en Afrique (1967), translated as Armed Struggle in Africa 
  (1969). In October--November 1967 he ma<Je ~ .study of 
  several villages in, North Vietnam,-and on bis return 
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