50 min listen
The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'
FromThe History Hour
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The French colonialists who returned to France after decades in Algeria, the Catholic welcome when the British army was first deployed to Northern Ireland, plus the US nuclear submarine that went under the north pole, Britain's last battle in China in WW2 and the introduction of Community Service to help relieve overcrowded prisons.
(Photo: French repatriates leaving Algeria May 1962. (Photo by REPORTERS ASSOCIES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
(Photo: French repatriates leaving Algeria May 1962. (Photo by REPORTERS ASSOCIES/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
Released:
Aug 10, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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