Rewriting the Troubles - War and Propaganda, Ireland and Algeria

In this timely and meticulously researched book, Patrick Anderson compares and contrasts Algeria-s anti-colonial struggle for independence with the republican campaign to dismantle Britain-s colonial legacy. Comparing the French and British armies, the IRA and ALN, loyalists and OAS -counter-terrorists-, Anderson dissects, with devastating effect, the approach of -constitutional- politicians and the respective media portrayals in an analogy that for critics will be too close for comfort.

About the book, historian Dr Brian Feeney, in the Irish News, said, -Unionists, including academics, have been aware of the striking analogies between Algeria and the north for decades: they all reject the uncanny similarities as dangerous- It-s easy to see why- Accepting any analogy or similarity means accepting that the north is illegal, a temporary arrangement, and that Britain will eventually leave Ireland as the French did Alger