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Praise for The Conquest of the Sahara:
"The Conquest of the Sahara is almost everything a book should be-an adornment for your home, a blitz of information for your brain, a diversion and a hoot, and, finally, balm for your soul." --The Los Angeles Times
"A bravura account...Readers with a taste for exotic popular history will savor Porch's wry sense of irony." -- Newsweek
"In this admirable book, Douglas Porch sets the record straight." --The Washington Post Book World
"Porch is knowledgeable. . .and a fine writer with a dramatic style . . .[he] has done a superb job." --The Boston Globe
"[Porch] presents a vivid blow-by-blow account of how this arid, inhospitable land was penetrated at a terrible cost." --The San Francisco Chronicle
The Conquest of the Sahara,Douglas Porch,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,0374128790,1830-1962,Africa - General,Africa - History,Algeria,Colonies And Colonization,Foreign relations,France,History,History - General History,History - Military / War,Military,Military - General,Military - World War II,Tuaregs,History / Military / World War II
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