 One of the few military histories of the war was "The Algerian Insurrection" by a retired British Army officer Edgar O'Ballance who wrote with frank admiration for French tactics in Algeria, seeing the FLN as a terrorist group that needed to be suppressed and concluded that the tactics that won the war militarily lost the war politically.In 1977, the British historian Alistair Horne published "A Savage War of Peace", which is generally regarded as the leading book written on the subject in English, though written from a French perspective rather the Algerian.After 15 years, Horne was not concerned about right or wrong, but with cause and effect.