That Movie has become a cult (?) requirement (Available from Netflix!) among officers deploying to Iraq, the first Muslim Urban Insurgency. Well, every now and then my local Public Library buys something interesting, todays book is:
My Battle of Algiers by Ted Morgan. (Smithsonian Books, 2005); Cool stuff, he was a French Officer in Algeria in 1957.
(Got to love these unhelpful blog stuff; The Text editior won't let me underline a book title; I guess I am supposed to provide a link to Amazon or something; But only If I can get paid)
For the audience this blog is aimed at, it doesn't get much better than this, trust me. A "Street Level" westerern Journalist's memoir of the campaign. (After a brief stint of troop duty, he was working PSYOPS/Propaganda). Very well written (He is a journalist), an account of events from a different world, with background information to illuminate events for the non-specialist interested in the subject.
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