"Readers explore the vast lands and unique cultural groups of Africa's largest nation in this comprehensive guide to life in Algeria. Focused chapters detail this North African country's history, geography, economy, arts scene, and more. Readers even learn about Algerian cuisine and are invited to make their own with the help of clear recipes. Fact boxes provide fun information for future world travelers, sidebars inspire tomorrow's global citizens, and colorful photographs display the diversity of this amazing part of the world"-- Provided by publisher.

Focuses on the harrowing events of 1957, a key year in Algeria's struggle for independence from France. Recreates the tumultuous Algerian uprising against the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, the French torture prisoners for information and the Algerians resort to terrorism in their quest for independence. Children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés. The French win the battle, but ultimately lose the war as the Algerian people demonstrate that they will no longer be suppressed.

"A revelatory new biography of the writer-activist Frantz Fanon, who inspired today's movements for racial liberatio"--

Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.

In November 1942, the Allies are poised to liberate Algeria from the Vichy French regime, a client state of Nazi Germany. This, it is hoped, will squeeze Rommel's Afrika Korps between two forces and sweep him from North Africa. But no one knows whether the French will greet the Americans as friends or foes. Based on family connections rather than experience, Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston, has become General Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal investigator. His first case started in England and took him to Occupied Norway. To his own surprise--and that of others--Billy proved to be a better detective than any one had expected.