What Went Wrong in Algeria.

The article presents information about the book "Lieutenant in Algeria," by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and translated by Ronald Matthews. The book talks about war in Algeria. Written for a French public largely as an impassioned political tract, in some ways already out of date "Lieutenant in Algeria" nevertheless may in its present American version make a large American public understand why "pacification" has gone so wrong. Servan-Schreiber is singularly well equipped for the task. At 33 one of the most brilliant political polemicists in a country where intellectual standards are high, he is also a man of action. He was recalled to active military service in 1956.