Word: algerians
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...author's ideas on the role of the army. As a novel, it hardly exists. Although the cover calls it "the sensational bestselling French novel about their paratroops in Indo-China and Algeria," it only describes Indo-China after the defeat at Dien-Bien-Phu, and deals with the Algerian campaign in a curious (and not very exciting) fashion, as though the French army there were Larteguy's model army...
...novel, this reconstruction takes the modest form of forming a guerilla army under Raspeguy to fight the Algerian rebels. Applying what they learned from the Communist Viets, with a violence inspired by disgust at the Metropolitan France where they spent their leaves, they succeed in stemming the F.L.N. tide. The novel ends on this optimistic note, but before the Fifth Republic and the institution of the Gaullist liberation policy...
...France gives up its claim to the Algerian naval base of Mers-el-Kebir as a kind of French Gibraltar, instead settles for a 30-to 40-year lease...
...Both sides agree to a referendum to take place in Algeria, with a yes or no vote on the question, "Do you approve of Algerian independence and cooperation with France...
...France agrees to Algerian sovereignty over the Sahara, provided that French oil interests are respected...