Gabarit de la fleur de lotus Gabarit Fleurs Imprimer a black and white drawing of a flower with the petals facing outwards A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954 1962. The Algerian war lasted nearly eight years (195462) almost twice as long as the First World War. France's 130 year involvement in Algeria had started, ominously enough, with the toppling of the last Bourbon throne, and the war itself was to cause the fall of six French prime ministers and the collapse of the Fourth Republic itself. The story told so masterfully in A Savage War of Peace is at once a heroic and a tragic one, and poses issues of enduring relevance beyond the confines of either geography or time. Published 1979, Peregrine Book. Binding of book is intact. Moderate fraying and creasing on covers of book. Slight tanning, foxing and chipping on edges of book. Annotations in pencil and some foxing on inside of covers. Annotation in pen on one page. Some foxing on certain pages. Plates are intact.