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Florent-Emilio Siri on INTIMATE ENEMIES
- October 5th, 2009
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Okay, so I think we all have something we can now say about ill-advised wars. France, though, learned its lesson fifty years ago. A lot of lives (some 500,000, both soldier and civilian) were lost in trying keep Algiers from declaring its independence. The battle, which ran from 1954 to 1962, has received sparse treatment [...]
