Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Introduction: ‘Fuck France!’

Part One: State of Denial

  1   Murder in the Suburbs

  2   The Secrets of Lyons

  3   A Soldier for God

Part Two: Algeria, Prisoners of Love

  4   The Walls of Algiers

  5   Conquest

  6   The Secret World of the ‘Algerines’

  7   New America

  8   The French Kingdom of the Arabs

  9   Latin Africa

10   Awakenings

11   Enemy States

12   Switching Sides

13   The Reconquest

14   Capitals of Madness

15   De Gaulle and the French Civil War

16   An Experimental Nation

17   The Algerian Intifada

18   The New War with France

19   Mysteries and Martyrs

20   Family Secrets

Part Three: In Morocco

21   Queer Tangier

22   Peaceful Penetration

23   French Friends

24   Modern Times

25   Blank Generation

26   Setting Europe on Fire

27   The Neuilly–Marrakesh Express

Part Four: Tunisia, Made in France

28   The Mysteries of Tunis

29   Stealing Tunisia

30   Holidays in the Sun

31   Miracles

Part Five: Prisoners of War

32   Muslims in Prison

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Maps

Illustrations

Illustration Credits

Also by Andrew Hussey

A Note About the Author

Copyright