Her book (2), which is now on sale in bookshops all over Algeria, paints a different picture. It recalls the memories of a spoilt child nostalgically looking for the Algeria of her youth, still pining for the French occupation. Who would have imagined that the Algerian press, usually very touchy on the topic of the war of independence (1954-62), would one day quote a former French colon as saying that the (Algerian) National Liberation Front (FLN) and the (French) Secret Armed Organisation (OAS) - were comparable terrorist organisations? Yet that is exactly what Schemla claimed in the columns of the daily newspaper Le Matin (3) - without prompting the slightest official reaction by either the FLN itself or the many organisations representing former combatants and their (...)