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Autor von Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed

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John Phillips has been a correspondent with The Times of London since 1992, covering Italy as well as the Croatian and Bosnian wars. Since 2000 he has reported from the Balkans, reporting on the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia and the conflicts involving ethnic Albanian guerrillas in mehr anzeigen Macedonia and southern Serbia weniger anzeigen

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The prose is very, very dull--not difficult to read, but just an effort. But the book is such a great telling of Algeria's recent history that I'm willing to overlook the writing. If you're interested, and you should be, you should read this book. Know, however, that the early chapters are the weakest (incredibly broad history of the distant, distant past... very broad history of the colonial past... not very enlightening). But after decolonization things really pick up, and it's a disturbing, but 'enjoyable' read. E&P's interpretation of the history is, in sum: any time the country started to get some sort of stability, either a leader would die, the economy would crash, or some other external event would impose itself to ruin that chance of stability. Very sad reading.… (mehr)
 
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