- History, Political crimes and offenses, Histoire, Algeria
An Algerian journalist details his torture at the hands of the French in Algeria, in 1957.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Henri Alleg
- First published
- 1958
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- George Braziller,Inc, La Cite, J. Calder
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9789756865057
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