Download or read book From Empire to Exile written by Claire Eldridge and published by Studies in Modern French Histo. This book was released on 2016 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the memory of the war of independence in France as viewed by the former European settlers (pieds-noirs) and the harkis, those Algerians who worked for the French security forces. It examines how the memorial dynamics of the two groups are related both to each other and to other memories of the war.