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The Battle of Algiers
1957 — General Massu’s paratroopers break the FLN’s urban network in the Casbah, and use systematic torture to do it. France wins the battle and loses the argument: the methods turn French and world opinion against the war.
This is one scene of Chapter 4 — Algeria — The Exception in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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