Korean War Podcast

The French Tenth Para-troop Division is sent to Algiers to combat FLN terrorism in the City. A biography of General Massu, the commander of the Tenth Para-troop Division. The French para-troops use torture to gain information on the FLN. More than three thousand suspected FLN supporters are murdered by the French Army in Algiers. The power of the FLN in Algiers is broken.

The number of French troops sent to Algeria increase to a massive half a million but they even large a force can not defeat the FLN. The FLN begins a campaign of terrorism in the City of Algiers killing and maiming Pied Noir civilians. A biography of FLN leader in Algiers, Abane. The French governor decides to sent in the Paratroops into Algiers

French Army reinforcements are sent to Algeria but they can not defeat the FLN. A biography of FLN military leader Krim. In August 1955, in and around the town of Phillipeville the FLN carry out a massacre of Pied Noir civilians. In return the French Army murder local Muslims civilians. These events polarise the Pied Noir and Muslim populations.

Proposed reforms for Algeria, are frustrated by the French Colonial Officials. Young Algerian Muslims begin to believe that can be no chance of equality with independence and that can only achieved by violence. A biograph of the militant Ben Bella. The Algerian War of Independence begin on All Saints Day 1954.

In,1830, France begin a conquest of Algeria. European immigrants move to Algeria, they would be known as the Pied Noir, they were granted French citizenship, not so the Algerian Muslims. The Setif revolt of May 1945. A biography of moderate Algerian Muslim Fermat Abbas.

The Iranian oil industry was controlled by the British. Iranian Prime Minister Mosaddegh nationalise the Oil industry, the British try to boycott the sale of Iranian Oil. A biography of Mosaddegh, he becomes increasingly illiberal losing some public support, this allows the CIA and MI5 to organise a plot against him in 1953. The Shah take control of the Country and represents opposition.

The peace talks between Israel and the Arab states which ended the war. The plight of refugees from Palestine. The expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews. from the Arab states. Why the good relations between the Soviet Union and Israel grew worse. The overthrow of Egyptian King Fakour and his biography.

The Israeli Army wins control of the Western Negev. The Israeli Army then invades the Sinai, the British Government threatens war if the Israelis did not withdrew from the Sinai, so David Ben Gurion agrees to do so.. In January 1949 the Israeli Army cuts off the Egyptian Army in Gaza. The Egyptian Government is forced to begin peace talks.

The third ad final phase of the war begins in October 1948, with the Israeli Army concentrating its forces in the south against the Egyptian Army. The Israeli Army encircle the Egyptian Fourth Brigade. The Israeli Army relives Jewish settlements and conquers the Negev. A biography of General Allon who led the Israeli Army in this offensive.

The story of the second United Nations Cease Fire between July and October 1948, the life and murder of UN peace maker Count Bernadotte. The end of the Arab enclave of the Little Triangle, south of Haifa. The start of the third phase of the war and the campaign in Northern Israel.