The Impossible Republic: The Reconquest of Algeria and the Decolonization of France, 1945–1962.

The article focuses on the post-World War II history of Algeria between 1945 and 1962, focusing on the colonial administration of France, decolonization, and the Algerian Revolution. It considers the escalation of the Algerian crisis leading up to the late 1950s, the French use of emergency powers, issues of race and ethnicity, rule of law, citizenship, political violence, and nationalism.