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Hardback. Condition: Good. A Yale graduate who grew up in France and America, Ted Morgan was drafted into the French Army and served in Algeria in 1956 and 1957. In this memoir, the eminent historian and biographer relives the harrowing conflict in which everyone, French and Arab, became involved in unimaginable barbarities. Morgan himself beat and killed a prisoner who may have been responsible for the death of a friend. Morgan lived through the day-to-day struggle to put down an Arab insurgency, with its unrelenting menu of bombings, assassinations and torture reminiscent of America's present difficulties in Iraq. My Battle of Algiers is a sobering lesson about the birth of urban terrorism and the tremendous difficulty of being victorious in any such conflict.Ted Morgan is the author of more than fifteen books, including FDR: A Biography and Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. As Sanche de Gramont, he was the only French citizen to win the Pulitzer Prize (for journalism). He lives in New York City. "A chilling and instructive record of the birth of Arab terrorism -- and the methods used to eradicate it" -- Wall Street Journal.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged continent that became our country.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. This is the biggest, grandest, most sprawling epic ever told, filled with battles and hardship, courage, determination, daring voyages into the unknown, and eye-opening discoveries. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of FDR, Winston Churchill, and Somerset Maugham, Wilderness At Dawn is the sprawling, roughhouse epic of the unsung heroes, heroines, and rogues who tamed the rugged continent that became our country. …

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Hardback. Condition: Good. With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them in this riveting story of an iconoclast.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them in this riveting story of an iconoclast.…

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