"This is by far the best book I have read&nbsp;on the whole tragic Algerian denouement&nbsp;and the OAS. I admire the way Paul&nbsp;Henissart has combined the talents of a&nbsp;historian with the&nbsp;energies of a journalist and has added knowledge personally&nbsp;acquired through interviews to knowledge acquired through books." C. L. Sulzberger, Chief Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times.The time is only a few years ago—but&nbsp;seems ages past.&nbsp;The place is French Algeria, torn apart&nbsp;by a vicious, endless war, familiar in its&nbsp;horror and its divisive effects to all who&nbsp;have lived through our own Vietnam involvement.&nbsp;The subject: the rising of thep/ec/s noirs&nbsp;and large parts of the French Army in a&nbsp;last-ditch effort to thwart the inevitable&nbsp;independence of Algeria—a movement&nbsp;that cost countless lives and threatened&nbsp;the very existence of the French Republic.Paul Henissart's Wolves in tiie City is&nbsp;the first comprehensive and objective account of the rise and fall of the notorious&nbsp;OAS (Organisation armee secrete), a&nbsp;drama of assassination, misplaced loyalty, fanaticism, plastiquage and blood. Like&nbsp;such nonfiction classics as Is Paris Burning? and The Longest Day, Wolves in the&nbsp;City takes the reader step by step, character by character, day by day through&nbsp;the events of that time. It is filled&nbsp;with&nbsp;captivating if often terrifying personalities:&nbsp;men like Roger Degueldre, head of&nbsp;the&nbsp;barbaric OAS Delta commandos; Jean-Jacques Susini, the fascist-intellectual&nbsp;power broker of the OAS; and of course,&nbsp;the famous adversary generals, Raoul&nbsp;Salan, chief of the secret army, and&nbsp;Charles de Gaulle, monarch of French&nbsp;political life, a man almost destroyed by&nbsp;the violence of decolonizing Algeria in his&nbsp;own mysterious fashion....Paul Henissart has lived for more than&nbsp;twenty years in France and Tunisia, and&nbsp;has traveled extensively in North Africa&nbsp;and the Middle East. A correspondent&nbsp;and a radio and television writer, he now&nbsp;makes his home in Paris.

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