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The History Hour: Algeria's War of Independence

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30/04/2022 GMT

Algeria's War of Independence

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Algeria's War of Independence

60 years after Algerian independence, accounts of a traumatic “birth of a nation”

Algeria's brutal war of independence from France: 60 years on, Algeria's female bombers, the use of torture by France, reprisals against Algerians who fought with the French

Sixty years after Algeria's independence from France, first-hand accounts of a traumatic 'birth of a nation': a female Algerian bomber who was part of the battle for Algiers; how the French military responded with brutal tactics; a massacre on the streets of Paris; and reprisals against Algerians who fought alongside the French. Plus,the flowering of a national spirit through football.

(Photo: French soldiers in the kasbah of Algiers, 1960. Credit: Getty Images)

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