 English-language historiography

In English, British and American historians tended to see the FLN as freedom fighters with the French being condemned as imperialists.One of the first books about the war in English, "A Scattering of Dust" by American journalist Herb Greer depicted the Algerian struggle for independence in a very sympathetic way.Most work in English done in the 1960s and 1970s, usually the work of left-wing scholars, focused on explaining the FLN as a part of a generational change in Algerian nationalism and depicted the war as either a reaction to intolerable racist oppression and/or an attempt by peasantry impoverished by French policies to improve their lot.