The Harkis : The Wound That Never Heals
Vincent. Crapanzano
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (254 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Usage; Introduction; One / The Wound That Never Heals; Two / The Historical Background; Three / The Harkis; Four / The War's Aftermath; Five / The Camps; Six / After the Camps; Seven / Reflections; Notes; References; Index. - In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria's war of independence. After tens of thousands of Harkis were massacred by other Algerians at the end of the war, the survivors fled to France where they were placed in camps, some for as long as sixteen years. Condemned as traitors by other Algerians and scorned by the French, the Harkis became a population apart, and their children still suffer from t
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| ISBN | 0226118762. - 9780226118765
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