Men At Arms No. 312 – The Algerian War 1954 – 62

It is hard to convey the public impact of Frances war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria; yet in the late 1950s this ugly conflict dominated Europes media to almost the same extent as would Vietnam ten years later. It brought France to the very verge of military coup detat; it destroyed thousands of careers; bitterly divided the French military and political classes for a generation; and sent hundreds of thousands of European settler families into often ruinous exile. This title details the history, organisation, equipment and uniforms of the forces involved in the Algerian War (1954-1962).

About The Author:

Martin Windrow is series editor at Osprey and an authority on the post-war French army, particularly the Foreign Legion. He is the author of the very successful Men-at-Arms 300: French Foreign Legion since 1945 and Men-at-Arms 322: The French War in Indochina 1946?54.