After the French withdrawal from Indochina, coming as a result of the defeat at Dien Bien Phu and the subsequent Geneva Conference settlement, there were many who felt that France's policies would move on a new track. However, almost immediately the French became embroiled in a new war in Algeria. This war, coming from origins similar to that in Indochina, lasted from 1954 until 1962, took over 133,000 lives, and cost the French treasury about thirty billion dollars. In the end, the Algerian War stood as mute testimony to what the French Army learned, perhaps too well, in its campaigns in Indochina.

Colonial Twilight The French War in Algeria

Introduction
Origins of the Algerian War
War Comes to Algiers
The Year of Mobilization
The New War Strategy
Battle of Algiers
Challe's Campaign of 1959
Jaws of Victory