Algiers, Battle of, 183–207; uncommemorated, 15; Abane and, 134; strategic error, 146; preliminaries, 153; effect on F.L.N., 218–19; Mélouza and, 221; bleus and, 223, 259, 291, 322; torture and, 232, 234, 258, 339; and operations in France, 236; Mollet and, 238; Lacoste and, 240; and U.N., 247; effect on French army, 253, 268; fugitives from, 260, 323; women in, 402, 409; effect in France, 416; and O.A.S. casualties compared, 531
Ali la Pointe, 187, 15, 213, 216–18, 259–260, 563
Alicante, 496, 532, 549
Alilat, Larbi, 413, 425, 430–1
All Saint’s Day (1954), 79, 83–94, 96–8, 111, 136
Allais, Maurice, 522
Allard, Jacques, 113–14, 234, 269, 282
Alleg, Henri, 200–2, 205, 232
A.L.N. (Armée de Libération Nationale): and “traitors”, 133–4; weak compared to French, 219; increasing losses, 220; regroupment, 221; reorganisation, 230, 412–14, 476; sanctuary in Tunisia, 248; defeated at Agounennda, 252–4; and Morice Line, 264–5, 314; under pressure, 321–2; forces in “interior”, 330, 443; “interior” and “exterior” contrasted, 382; exploits unilateral truce, 470; and ceasefire, 523; moves into Algeria, 536; see also F.L.N.
Alsace, 32
Amal, 152
Amara, Ali see Ali la Pointe
American Civil War, 444n
American Federation of Labour, 244
Aminore, Mahieddine, 16
Amirouche (Ait Hamouda), 131, 136, 143–4, 222, 259–61, 322–4, 326, 334–5, 387
A.M.L. (Les Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté), 43, 73
Amrouche, Jean, 50, 220
anciens combattants (ex-servicemen), 148–9
Ankaoua, Lorette, 16, 525, 532
A.N.P.A. (Armée Nationale Populaire Algérienne), 258
Arab League, 25, 261
Arabic, 69, 108, 110
Arabs: and Kabyles, 50, 78, 143, 256; pied noir attitude to, 54; respect for strength, 114; for Muslim population generally, see Muslims
Arba, L’, 252, 354
Argentina, 533, 552
Argoud, Antoine: 353–4, 177; quoted 165, 355–6; and Battle of Algiers, 191; and “Barricades Week”, 359–60, 364, 366–7; recalled to France, 373; and putsch, 438–9, 442, 451; sentenced, 462; and O.A.S., 481, 499, 543; kidnapped, 544; later career, 552
armaments: of F.L.N., 84–5; on Dina, 129–30; from Morocco and Tunisia, 130; on Athos, 158; dealers in, 261–3; on Slovenija, 261; captured, 265, 337
Armée de l’Air, 113, 419, 448, 456, 462
Army, French: and Sétif, 26, 28;
administration of Algeria, 32–3, 43, 166; and defeat in Indo-China, 66–9, 79, 166–7; numbers in Algeria, 96, 113, 124, 151; in Aurès, 100–2; reinforced, 112–13; increasing brutality, 114–15, 121–2, 171–3; reservists recalled, 151; low morale, 152; effect of Suez on, 164; skill against guerrillas, 165, 168; political attitudes, 167, 267; democratised, 170; attitude to F.L.N., 173; determined to keep Algeria, 175–7, 268; effects of 1940, 175n; attitude to Muslims, 178; and torture, 197–203, 233; connives at ratonnade, 210–11; popularity, 218; as “ultimate arbiter”, 219; and Oiseau Bleu, 256–8, 260; and Morice Line, 264–5; and de Gaulle, 289, 299–300, 341, 546, 551; and fraternisation, 291; and paix des braves, 307; purged, 309; pre-Challe establishment, 331; new spirit, 333; success, 337–8; reaction to peace plans, 347, 443; disaffected, 353; and Algiers insurrection, 362–4; de Gaulle addresses, 369, 455, 457, 461; second purge, 373; de Gaulle distrusts, 375; and counter-propaganda, 403n; and revolt, 426, 437; fires on Algiers mob, 432; begins putsch, 448; “torn in two”, 461–3; and rioting over partition, 474; and Bizerta, 475; and O.A.S., 490, 524; de Gaulle and future of, 507; non-intervention by, 533, 537; leaves Algeria, 544
army units, French:
Etranger Parachutiste: 1st Batt., 169, 203, 264; 1st Reg., 169, 171, 217–18, 264, 289, 347, 353, 362, 364, 370–1, 374, 426–7, 433, 437–8, 444, 448–9, 458–9, 462, 480, 483, 563
Chasseurs Parachutistes: 1st Reg., 202, 362; 2nd Reg., 202; 9th Reg., 265–266; 14th Reg., 427, 462; 18th Reg., 121, 427, 431, 462
Commandos de Chasse, 335–6, 398
“Force A”, 158, 162
Goums, 112, 135
Harkis, 223, 254–6, 284, 322–3, 335–338, 393, 410, 418, 443–4, 497, 500, 522, 533, 537–8, 554
Infanterie Coloniale: 9th Reg., 152–3
Légion Etrangère, 115, 169, 459, 482, 551, 563; see also Etranger Parachutiste
Para (Airborne) Divisions: 10th, 188–9, 199, 334, 360, 370, 447, 527; 25th, 96, 102, 275, 370
Parachutistes Coloniales: 1st Batt., 167; 6th Batt., 168; 2nd Reg., 201; 3rd Reg., 168, 190, 193, 212, 251, 258, 286, 294, 452
Spahis, 223, 252
Tirailleurs Algériens: 112, 124, 151, 171, 252; 4th Reg., 525–6; 7th Reg., 28; 46th Reg., 138; 50th Reg., 138
Tirailleurs Marocains, 354
Tirailleurs Sénégalais, 178
Unités Territoriales, 275, 351, 360, 371, 373; de Choc, 351, 359; 11th de Choc, 142, 182, 189–90, 202, 212, 222–3, 256, 262, 294, 393
see also Cinquième Bureau, Deuxième Bureau, D.O.P., D.P.U., D.S.T., G.R.E.
Aron, Raymond, 175, 242, 306, 313, 331; L’Algérie et la République, 242
Aron, Robert, 27, 64–5
Arrighi, Pascal, 294
Arris, 34, 89–93, 96–7, 100, 102–3, 109, 254
Arromanches (aircraft carrier), 475
Artur, Hervé, 152–3
Arzew, 341
“assimilation”, 35, 37, 40–1, 64, 106
Association des Elus d’Algérie, 148
Athos (gun-runner), 158, 162
Atlas mountains, 44–5, 251, 387, 398, 472
atrocities, 26–7, 30, 101, 112, 114–15, 117, 120–2, 134, 153, 171–2, 231, 238, 537; see also torture
Auboyneau, Admiral, 282
Audat, Pierre, 90
Audin, Maurice, 202–3, 232, 357
Aulnoy, Château d’, 404, 509, 512
Aurès, 34, 48–9, 78, 88–93, 96, 100–3, 107, 109–10, 141–2, 225, 275, 322, 334–5, 337, 342, 382, 562
Aurore, L’, 243, 353
Azedine, Si, 252, 139, 253, 322, 325, 387, 390, 393, 399, 412, 476, 530–1, 555
Baden, 544
Bandung Conference, 130–1, 245, 546
Bao-Dai, 409, 467
Bardot, Brigitte, 501, 544
Barrat, Robert, 232
“Barricades Trial”, 177, 363, 373n, 417, 434, 438–40
“Barricades Week”, 363–72, 13, 182, 373–6, 379, 382–3, 386, 397, 411, 415, 422, 426–7, 430, 438, 440–1, 450, 453, 503, 525, 547
Bastien-Thiry, Jean-Marie, 489n, 499–500, 543
Batna, 88, 90, 93, 117
“Bay of Pigs”, 446
Beaufre, André, 113, 19, 158–9, 162–3, 166, 170, 175, 353, 377, 463, 551
Beauvoir, Simone de, 27, 45, 125, 164, 235–6, 238, 258, 289, 296–7, 303–5, 307, 416, 504, 522
Bécarud, Jean, 17
Bedjaoui, Mohamed, 16
Beeley, Harold, 250
Behr, Edward, 16, 28, 122, 154, 177, 199, 205, 242, 246, 303, 330, 337, 346, 370, 431
Beisner, Wilhelm, 262
B.E.L. (Bureau d’Études et de Liaisons), 388–9, 390n, 393
Belaiche, Marcel, 59
Belfast, 171
Belgrade, 175
Belhaddad, Mahdi, 342–3, 473
Belhocine, Mabrouk, 536
Belkacem, Yasmina, 555
Bellounis, 136, 222, 258, 260, 409
Belmondo, Jean-Paul, 415
Beloff, Nora, 244
Ben Badis, Sheikh Abdulhamid, 38, 40
Ben Barka, Mehdi, 320
Ben Bella, Ahmed, 74–5; imprisoned by Boumedienne, 15, 541, 556; Sétif and, 28; childhood, 61; one of neuf historiques, 76–7; in Cairo, 79, 85, 129, 143, 219, 245; ad “leader”, 86, 404; on 1954 losses, 104; assassination attempts, 129; orders to Chihani, 135, 142; Abbas and, 141; rift with “interior”, 143; and Soummam Conference, 143, 146; and
peace feelers, 157; and Athos, 158; hijacked, 159–60, 186, 208, 249, 268, 354, 546; influences Mahsas, 224; and Abane, 226, 228, 229–30n; vice-president G.P.R.A., 316; imprisoned by French, 319, 404, 469; at Île d’Aix, 319, 341; on A.L.N. purges, 412; and peace negotiators, 385, 395, 466, 468–71, 509, 519; and Si Salah’s peace initiative, 390; backs Boumedienne, 476; and Fourth C.N.R.A., 477–8; at Château d’Aulnoy, 509, 512; freed, 536; attacks G.P.R.A., 536; president of Algeria, 410, 540–1, 556; ousted, 541, 556; exile, 557; nationalisation under, 558
Ben Bouali, Hassiba, 185, 184, 216–18
Ben Boulaid, Mostefa, 77, 76, 89–90, 93n, 102–3, 110, 141–2, 182, 256
Ben Khedda, Ben Youssef, 477; thanked, 19; pharmacist, 40n; arrested, 97; and Monteil, 111; joins F.L.N., 136–7; and Mandouze, 139; and C.C.E., 145, 226; paras hunt, 194; and torture, 196; flees Algeria, 208; Yacef and, 216; arrives in Tunis, 225; and Abane’s death, 229; and G.P.R.A., 316, 508; leads delegation to China, 317, 404, 477; on December 1960, 434; president of G.P.R.A., 478–9, 511; and O.A.S., 496; moderate utterances, 507; broadcasts victory, 521; and Sixth C.N.R.A., 536; ousted, 540; in retirement, 555
Ben M’hidi, Larbi, 76, 87, 94, 144–5, 184, 186, 190, 192, 194–5, 198, 202, 225, 227, 229, 233, 564
Ben Tobbal Lakhdar, 119, 57, 75, 119–20, 144, 225–6, 228–9, 316, 326, 386, 476–7, 509, 511, 555
Ben Yahia, Mohamed, 394, 468, 510–11
Benhabyles, Abdelmalek, 19
Beni Melloul, 89
Bendjedid, Chadli, Ben Bella opposes, 557; declares an amnesty, 397; succeeds Boumedienne, 557, 560–1
Berbers, 35, 49
Berlin, East, 496
Berne, 76
Bevan, Aneurin, 365
Bevin, Ernest, 154
Biaggi, Jean-Baptiste, 148–9, 274–6
Bidault, Georges, 16, 99, 283, 302, 351, 417–18, 438, 442, 498–9, 528, 543–4, 553
Bigeard, Marcel, 167–8, 175–6, 190, 193, 195, 207–8, 211–12, 251–4, 258, 265, 267, 286, 334, 340, 342, 360, 438, 452, 551, 564
Bigot, General, 448–9, 462
birthrate, 64
Biskra, 88, 90–1, 541
Bismarck, Prince, 31
Bitat, Rabah, 77, 84, 87, 93, 97, 104, 144, 183, 185n, 319, 404, 466, 468–70, 509, 536, 540, 546
Bitterlin, Lucien, 447, 492–5
Bizerta, 474–5, 506
Blachette, Georges, 57–8, 93, 155
Blankenhorn (German Ambassador), 447
Blida, 46, 71, 75, 93, 139, 203, 252, 278, 325, 429, 448, 474
Blignières, Hervé de, 437–9, 442, 491
Blondin, Charles, 313
Blum, Léon, 36–7, 41, 66, 68, 70, 108, 299, 346
Bolivia, 524
Bollardière, Jacques de, 176, 203, 206, 233, 246, 254, 259, 463
bombs, bomb-factories, etc., 84, 86, 88, 93–4, 185–6, 192, 209–10, 441, 470, 486, 503, 543–4
Bône, 53, 111, 341, 433, 455
Bonneval, Colonel de, 391
Borgeaud, Henri, 56–7, 62, 93, 97, 112, 155, 237, 269, 554
Bottier, Captain, 173
Bouadjadj, Zoubir, 84, 93–4, 97, 104
Boualem, Bachaga, 137–8, 255, 418, 498, 528, 537, 554
Bouazza, Djamila, 192–3
Boudaoud, Omar, 237–8, 318
Boudiaf, Mohamed, 75–7, 84, 87, 159, 319, 404, 466, 468–70, 478, 509n, 536, 541, 546, 556
Boufarik, 58, 93.
Bougie, 35, 144, 336, 341, 427.
Bouhired, Djamila, 184–6, 193, 211–15, 244, 555.
Bouhired, Fathia, 213, 216–17
Bouhired, Mostefa, 193, 213
Boukadoum, Messaoud, 70
Boulogne-sur-Seine, 503
Boumaza, Bachir, 410
Boumedienne, Houari, 327–8; abortive coup today, 15; vitiated interview with, 16; and Boussouf, 225; and Abane’s death, 229; and revolt of colonels, 326; his army of the “exterior”, 328, 340, 382, 388; and Wilaya 5, 333, 390n; at Third C.N.R.A., 385–6; and Si Salah’s death, 397n; admiration for Castro, 406; education, 407; consolidates power, 412–14; and peace negotiations, 468–9, 471, 508, 514; resigns, 476; and Fourth C.N.R.A., 477–8; and Bulletin d’Information, 496–497; Krim attacks, 509; at Fifth C.N.R.A., 519; backs Ben Bella, 536–7; takes over government 541; realistic policy, 547; halts emigration to France, 550; Massu and, 551–2; and his Algeria, 557–60; puritanism, 564; and Third World, 557, 559; death, 557; and economic growth, 558
Boumendjel, Ahmed, 72, 384, 394–5, 466, 468
Boumendjel, Ali, 194, 202, 233, 394
Boupacha, Djamila, 416
Bourboune, Mourad, 61
Bourgès-Maunoury, Maurice, 107, 124, 162, 180–1, 214, 217, 239–41, 269, 274, 498
Bourguiba, Habib, 13, 16, 27n, 75, 130, 160–1, 224, 228, 243, 247–50, 325, 466, 474–6, 506, 557, 561
Bou-Saada, 45, 258, 324
Boussouf, Abdelhafid, 225, 226, 228–9, 263, 316, 323, 326–7, 385–6, 394, 405, 412, 476–7, 509, 555
Bouzaréah, 486
Brace, Joan and Richard, 244, 404, 407, 540
Brady, Tom, 159
Brahimi, Lakhdar, 17
Brazil, 544, 553
Brazzaville, 24, 43, 280, 377
bribery, 35
Broglie, Jean de, 510, 512, 554
Broizat, Colonel, 362–3, 370, 373, 438–9, 442, 448, 462, 481, 552
Bromberger, Merry and Serge, 182n, 273–274, 278, 353, 358
Brothier, Colonel, 167
Brussels, 554
Budapest, see Hungary
Bugeaud, Thomas, 30, 32, 34, 564
Buis, Georges, 324, 342
Bulganin, N. A., 163–4
Bulletin d’Information, 406, 513
Bureaux Arabes, 32, 34
Burke, Edmund, 44
Buron, Robert, 373, 449, 459, 461, 479, 494, 510–12, 514–15, 519–520, 523
Butterlin (sub-prefect of Sétif), 25
“cadi’s ear”, 35
cadis, 34–5, 156
Cairo, 25, 79, 96, 129, 142, 157–8, 219, 226, 247, 261–2, 315–16, 327n; radio, 27, 85, 94, 129, 475
Cambon, Jules, 37–8
Camerone, 169
Camus, Albert, 124; memorial, 18; on Algeria in 1945, 24; on A.M.L. declaration, 43; on Tipasa, 45; on Oran, 47–8; on pieds noirs, 52–3, 209; attitude to Arabs, 55; La Peste, 55, 495, 517, 532, 567; on Algerian predicament, 60; on extravagant schools, 61; on infant mortality, 63; and “civil truce”, 124–6, 214, 236; on torture, 205; and Feraoun, 220, 517; supports federalism, 235; death of, 357; on despair, 480; on exodus, 505, 531; on liberty, 535; widow defends Jouhaud, 541–2; on memory, 564
Canada, 221, 275, 374, 533
Canal, André, 501–2, 503n, 528
Canard Enchainé, Le, 503, 522
Cannes, 564
Capitant, René, 233, 246
Caracalla, Emperor, 49
Cargos Algériens, 56–7
Casablanca, 96
Cassaigne, 94
Cassino, Monte, 74, 275, 342
Castille, Philippe, 148, 182, 190n, 367, 440
Castle, Barbara, 244
Castro, Fidel, 178, 406, 446
casualty figures: total in Algerian war, 12, 538; Algerian in First World War, 36; Sétif, 26–7; Philippeville, 121–2; by 1956, 141; Palestro, 153; caids, 158; Meknès riots, 160; Suez, 163; Indo-China, 169; Rue de Thèbes, 184; Milk-Bar, 186; Otomatic, Cafétéria, etc., 192; “disappearances” in Battle of Algiers, 202, Turkish bath, lampadaires, 209; Casino, 210; Sakiet, 249–50; Agounennda, 253; on Morice Line, 265–6; in May 1958, 314; municipal councillors, 318; in France, summer 1958, 318; A.L.N. in 1958; 321–2; in Ouarsenis, 334; “Binoculars”, 335–7; terrorist incidents in 1959–60, 352; on barricades, 362–3; Algerian factions in Paris, 409–10; riots, December 1960, 433; Bizerta, 475; barbouzes, 494; by O.A.S. and F.L.N., winter 1961–2, 496–7; by O.A.S. in France, 500, 503; Charonne Métro, 504; Algiers, February 1962, 516; Bab-el-Oued, 524; Rue d’Isly, 525; by O.A.S., 531; harkis and loyal M
uslims, 537–8
Catroux, Georges, 147, 126, 149–50, 180, 275, 299
C.C.E. (Comité de Coordination et d’Exécution), 145, 157, 190, 194–5, 208, 215, 219, 224–9, 248, 251, 260, 314–16, 327
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 172
centres sociaux, 110, 212, 517
Chaabani, Colonel, 541
Chaban-Delmas, Jacques, 276, 274, 277–8, 287, 292
Challe, Maurice, 311; thanked, 16; and Suez, 290; arrested, 292; appointed to Algeria, 310, 322, 331; and Delouvrier, 310–11, 422; his new strategy, 332; relations with army, 333, 373; in action, 334–5; and “Binoculars”, 336–8; and regroupment, 339; de Gaulle visits, 342–344; and self-determination, 346–7; 355, 378–9; and “ultras”, 352, 359–61; and Massu, 356–7; offers resignation, 358; and “Barricades Week”, 363–5; broadcasts on French commitment, 367; withdraws from Algiers, 368, 375, 429; summoned home, 374, 381; effect of removal on, 382–3; and Si Salah, 389; and negotiations with G.P.R.A., 397; resigns from armed forces, 435, 442; joins revolt, 441–4; his plans, 445; and C.I.A., 446, 497; returns to Algeria, 448; and putsch, 449–53; 455–7; surrenders, 458–9, 480; sentenced, 462, 527; and pieds noirs, 463; and Jouhaud, 481; and O.P.A., 535; and fate of harkis, 537; later career, 553.
Challe Plan, 328–9, 332–4, 338–40, 353, 382, 385, 388, 396, 398, 400, 425–6, 443, 445
Chanderli, Abdelkader, 245, 19, 129, 247, 250, 317, 394n, 425, 522
Chaouias, 48–9, 88, 103, 114, 562
Charles X, King of France, 29, 375
Chataigneua, Governor-General, 27
Château-Jobert, Colonel, 167
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