Inside the Battle of Algiers
Subtitle: Memoir of a Woman Freedom Fighter
By: Zohra Drif ; translated from the French by Andrew Farrand ; foreword by Lakhdar Brahimi
Contributors: Farrand, Andrew, translator
Publisher: Just World Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Mémoires d'une combattante de l'ALN
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781682570753
Subjects: National liberation movements; History; Revolutionaries; Women revolutionaries; Biography
Work titles: Mémoires d'une combattante de l'ALN
First sentence: I was born in Tiaret, on the Sersou plain, on December 28, 1934.
Description: "This gripping insider’s account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria’s national liberation movement to combat her country’s French occupiers. When the movement’s leaders turned to Drif and her female colleagues to conduct attacks in retaliation for French aggression against the local population, they leapt at the chance. Their actions were later portrayed in Gillo Pontecorvo’s famed film, 'The Battle of Algiers.' When first published in French in 2013, this intimate memoir was met with great acclaim and no small amount of controversy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the anti-colonial struggles of the 20th century and their relevance today, but also the specific challenges that women often confronted (and overcame) in those movements."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Translation of: Mémoires d'une combattante de l'ALN.

Translated from the French.