The "phony war" (November 1954-July 1955)
The open war (August 1955-December 1956)
The war of the Algerians (1954-1958)
De Gaulle and the war (1958-1959)
The wars within the war (1960-1961)
The war and French society (1955-1962)
Ben Bella's Algeria (1962-1965)
Boumédienne, the state, and the institutions
Economic choices and foreign policy (1965-1978)
Society and culture in Algeria (1962-1982)
The jamming of the system (1979-1988)
The crisis of October 1988 and its consequences