algeria

In 1880 the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu in French Sudan to Paris. The expedition was a fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, native guides led the one-hundred man expedition into an ambush that stranded them without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale.

A biography of the Algerian-born in-line skating champion, focusing on the tricks and stunts he performed at the X-Games and other competitions.

Examines the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Algerian War, an eight year conflict that led to Algeria becoming an independent nation in 1962.