Traditionally, Anglo-American authors have demonstrated little inclination to work on North African topics. They apparently assumed that scholarly interest in this area was a Latin or even a French preserve. A change of attitude was fostered by the allied landing in the Maghrib during World War Two. After 1945, books on North Africa in English began to appear more frequently. Additional impetus was given to the subject with the coming of independence for Libya in 1951, Morocco and Tunisia in 1956, and finally for Algeria in 1962. With respect to Algeria, the struggle between the Front of National Liberation (F.L.N.) and France compelled attention. In fact, some of the best early journalistic accounts of the Franco-Algerian conflict were in English.
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