| The Tigers of Djerdjer: Yaha Abdelhafid Le Tigre du Djurdjura Contributor(s): Abdenour, Si Hadj Mohand (Author) |
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ISBN: 1721171320 ISBN-13: 9781721171323 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $47.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Physical Information: 0.09" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.16 lbs) 44 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Raking and Ambush: Iferhounene and Tifilkout (Great Kabylie) Yaha Abdelhafid, a hero of the war of liberation, drawing from his memory, tells us the events with a fluidity that we know only genuine people, sincere, and integrity. He remembers, with remarkable clarity, images, words, the configuration of murderous fields of operations, but also minute details with imperturbable placidity. Of exemplary calm, our hero, tells the events without interruption or hesitation, while answering our many questions, in full interview, when we could not stop to interrupt it several times, to ask for details on such or such characters, on this or that type of weapon used, or on the balance sheets of the operations, skirmishes, ambushes, hands-offs. He admits he cannot put on his history of Maquisard, convinced, a calendar, still less a chronology, so absorbed by his faith to conquer, to fight the enemy wherever he is with always the idea that will leave him never, to sacrifice for the country. This kind of Temperament has made him that he will never admit falling into the hands of the enemy, alive and, he says to himself in the depths of him, that one must always attack, do one's duty, and then die of a bullet without giving the enemy the opportunity to avenge himself or to derive any benefit from the torture, should he fall into their hands. Dead on the side of this bitter enemy, he recognizes having done. It is war that it recognizes, and it was therefore necessary to kill or accept to die and let oneself be dominated, colonized, enslaved. He was busy planning the attacks, the ambushes, and acknowledges that in order to tidy up the chronology of the elements that nibbled his career as an FLN military leader during this terrible war |