Main content

Algeria's War of Independence

Algeria's brutal war of independence from France: 60 years on, Algeria's female bombers, the use of torture by France, reprisals against Algerians who fought with the French

Sixty years after Algeria's independence from France, first-hand accounts of a traumatic 'birth of a nation': a female Algerian bomber who was part of the battle for Algiers; how the French military responded with brutal tactics; a massacre on the streets of Paris; and reprisals against Algerians who fought alongside the French. Plus,the flowering of a national spirit through football.

(Photo: French soldiers in the kasbah of Algiers, 1960. Credit: Getty Images)

Available now

50 minutes

Last on

Mon 2 May 202223:06GMT
BBC World Service

More episodes

Previous

Women's rights in Iraq

Next

Fighting for Uyghur rights in China

See all episodes from The History Hour

Broadcasts

  • Sat 30 Apr 202213:06GMT
    BBC World Service News Internet
  • Sun 1 May 202219:06GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Mon 2 May 202223:06GMT
    BBC World Service

Podcast