The Battle of Algiers (1966) It’s a sad generality that for most Americans, any knowledge of European history ends with the fall of Nazi Germany some sixty-four years ago. Granted, WWII was the defining era for Europe in the twentieth century, but life went on, even though it apparently went largely unnoticed by America (too absorbed with her own problems then, too absorbed with her own problems now). But before America started down her own misguided path to empire, other... read more
