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Algeria's War of Independence

54 min•30 april 2022

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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