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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter

Inside the Battle of Algiers: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter

Drif, Zohra
Brahimi Brahimi, Lakhdar

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Biographies GeneralAfrican HistoryOther Wars

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1682570754
ISBN13: 9781682570753
Publisher: Just World Books
Published: Sep 1 2017
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for French aggression against the local population, they leapt at the chance. Their actions were later portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo's famed film The Battle of Algiers. When first published in French in 2013, this intimate memoir was met with great acclaim and no small amount of controversy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the anticolonial struggles of the 20th century and their relevance today, but also the specific challenges that women often confronted (and overcame) in those movements.

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