by Alain Vircondelet · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782754018746
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«La traversée» is Alain Vircondelet's autobiographical account of the pieds-noirs exodus in 1962, paperback (First éditions, 268 pp., French).
The author recounts his departure from Algeria in June 1962, at age fifteen, aboard the ship Ville d'Alger, during the pieds-noirs exodus to France. He alternates personal memories and documents to evoke the lives of the French of Algeria during the war and the uprooting of exile.
Published in 2012. Cover subtitle: «Été 1962, les pieds-noirs quittent l'Algérie».
For readers of contemporary history and memoirs of decolonization, especially the pieds-noirs exodus and the Algerian War.
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