John Talbott

Europe's loss of empire can be read in the signposts of the cities of the Third World. The main thoroughfare of Algiers, the rue Michelet under the French, is today called the rue Didouche Mourad. And Colonel Amirouche, Ben Mahdi Larbi, and Abd El Ka [...]

Guerrilla: A Historical and Critical Study, By Walter Laqueur. Little, Brown. $17.50. Perhaps the ablest guerrilla leader of the American Revolution was a South Carolinian named Francis Marion. The regulars of the American army laughed at the sight [...]