Opinion / Editorial: Write a focused paragraph assessment of the war. You choose the direction, but you must come to some "historiographic" conclusion based on your research
The War in Algeria was a complex war and the methods through which each side combatted the other were new and became highly controversial. The war created a stadium for guerrilla tactics to be developed and applied in a modern manner. The results of the war have continued to this day in the form of government corruption and terror tactics. Furthermore the Algerian War set a new standard for the use of terrorism and created a new paradigm of violence in the modern age. The Algerian War remains a contentious event to this day. According to historian Benjamin Stora -- who holds a Ph.D degree in history and sociology, teaches at Paris VII, and is one of the leading historians on the Algerian war -- memories concerning the war remain fragmented, with no common ground to speak of.
"There is no such thing as history of the Algerian War; there is just a multitude of histories and personal paths through it. Everyone involved considers that they lived through it in their own way, and any attempt to understand the Algerian War globally is immediately rejected by protagonists."
"There is no such thing as history of the Algerian War; there is just a multitude of histories and personal paths through it. Everyone involved considers that they lived through it in their own way, and any attempt to understand the Algerian War globally is immediately rejected by protagonists."