What caused the Algerian War of Independence?

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Primary Sources
Charles Maier & Dan White, edt, The Thirteenth of May: The Advent of deGaulle's Republic, (1968)
Dwight Eisenhower, Waging Peace; The White House Years: A Personal Account 1956-1961, (1965)
Anthony Eden, The Memoirs of Anthony Eden: Full Circle, (1960)
Harold MacMillan, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, (1971)
Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962, (1978)

Secondary Sources
Benjamin Stora, Algeria, 1830-2000: A Short History, (2001)
Roger Price, A Concise History of France, (2004)
Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France, (2006)
Jochim Joesten, The New Algeria, (1964)
William Weir, Guerrilla Warfare: Irregular Warfare in the Twentieth Century, (2008)
Andrew Hussey, The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs, (2014)

Footnotes
[1] Joesten, p. 21-3
[2] Weir, p. 159-60
[3] Stora, p. 3-6, Joesten, p. 12-4, Shepard, p. 20-5
[4] Stora, p. 3-8
[5] Shepard, p. 35-7
[6] Stora, p. 12-5
[7] Stora, p. 19-22
[8] Shepard, p. 39-43, https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1957/july/algeria-case-study-evolution-colonial-problem#:~:text=Although%20the%20new%20constitution%20bestowed,only%20a%20minimal%2C%20symbolic%20representation, Joesten, p. 14
[9] Stora, p. 8-12
[10] Joesten, p. 14-6
[11] Stora, p. 22-7
[12] Joesten, 17-8, Shepard, p. 37-90
[13] Hussey, 179-81
[14] Joesten, p. 18-21, Stora, 15-9
[15] Joesten, p. 18-21
[16] Joesten, p. 18-21
[17] Hussey, p. 179-81
[18] Joesten, p. 23-4, 27-8
[19] Stora, p. 33-5
[20] Joesten, p. 24-7
[21] Horne, p. 83-90, 94-7, Shepard, 43-5, Weir, p. 160-1, Stora, p. 35-8
[22] Stora, p. 35-8
[23] Weir, p. 160-1, Horne, 94-7, Stora, p. 35-8, 56-8
[24] Honre, p. 83-90, Stora, p. 38-9
[25] Horne, p. 105-7
[26] Stora, p. 39-41, Horne, p. 107-9
[27] Weir, p. 160-1, Horne, p. 107-9, Shepard, p. 43-5
[28] Horne, p. 111-3
[29] Stora, p. 39-41, Joesten, p. 29-30
[30] Horne, p. 113-5
[31] Stora, p. 43-6
[32] Stora, p. 38-9, 60-2
[33] Stora, p. 59-60, 67-8
[34] Stora, p. 44-6, Maier & White, p. 73-8
[35] Stora, p. 44-8
[36] Eisenhower, p 24, https://youtu.be/hhHvm2B40mM?si=98OmOzYW8LkqFawF
[37] Eisenhower, p. 104-5
[38] Eisenhower, p. 39-40
[39] Eden p. 582, Eisenhower, p. 72
[40] Stora, p 47-8


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