French Defectors - Defectors from the French Army to the ALN, Khaled Nezzar, Mohamed Lamari, Henri Maillot, Larbi Belkheir (Paperback)

Chapters: Defectors From the French Army to the Aln, Khaled Nezzar, Mohamed Lamari, Henri Maillot, Larbi Belkheir. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Major-General Khaled Nezzar (Arabic ) is an Algerian general, and former member of the High Council of State. Khaled Nezzar was born in the douar of Thlet, in Seriana in the Batna region, on 25 December 1937. His father, Rahal Nezzar, was a former non-commissioned officer in the French army who had turned to farming after World War II. His mother died in 1941. After studying in the local native school (cole indigne), he was transferred to a school for troops' children at Kolea, and then joined the French army, studying at the Strasbourg military school in Algiers where non-commissioned officers were trained. He deserted on 27 April 1958, joining the National Liberation Front to participate in the Algerian War of Independence. He started out as a National Liberation Army instructor, and was then appointed as an assistant to Colonel Chadli Bendjedid (military chief of northeastern Algeria). After independence in 1962, he remained in the Algerian army, and starting rising through the ranks. He went to Moscow in 1964 to receive military training at the Frunze Military Academy there. Upon his return in 1965, he was named Director of Materiel in the Ministry of National Defense. Soon after Houari Boumedienne's coup, he was put in charge of the Saharan 2nd Motorized Infantry, based around Ain Sefra. In 1968, he was sent to Egypt to help guard the Egypt-Israel line of control, which at the time (just after the Six Day War) witnessed regular artillery bombardments and aerial bombings. After returning from Egypt, he was put in charge of training Algeria's first parachutists, with Soviet help, at Biskra. In ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5789782