Aka their liberation war.
I saw a documentary on the 'harkis', the peoples who decided to fight for their clans, homes, etc - and France. Boy, this was dark, as bad a Vietnam 2,0 got.
Now, can the thing be even more complex, perhaps darker and worse? Like...
Involvement of neighboors one side or the other, to gain contested areas? Early islamists/muslim foreign warriors coming in - or the rumored egyptian attack true?
If FLN and/or the other(s) turn more communists, international help from communist world? Communist troubles in metropolitan France?
A country siding with France, colonial and perhaps conservative or... Like Franco? CIA or such involvement if communists are found?
How to make the thing go even more the drain?
Disclaimer; this is not a glorification of French Colonial Era, even if apparently the thing was more complex than it seems - horror and atrocities from both sides and all...
I saw a documentary on the 'harkis', the peoples who decided to fight for their clans, homes, etc - and France. Boy, this was dark, as bad a Vietnam 2,0 got.
Now, can the thing be even more complex, perhaps darker and worse? Like...
Involvement of neighboors one side or the other, to gain contested areas? Early islamists/muslim foreign warriors coming in - or the rumored egyptian attack true?
If FLN and/or the other(s) turn more communists, international help from communist world? Communist troubles in metropolitan France?
A country siding with France, colonial and perhaps conservative or... Like Franco? CIA or such involvement if communists are found?
How to make the thing go even more the drain?
Disclaimer; this is not a glorification of French Colonial Era, even if apparently the thing was more complex than it seems - horror and atrocities from both sides and all...