| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ahmed Ben Bella | 1965 | Robert Merle | Buy |
Ahmed Ben Bella (1965) is Robert Merle’s only non-fiction book. It profiles the first president of independent Algeria, written during a period when Merle was deeply engaged with questions of colonialism and national liberation. The biography fits alongside his fiction in its interest in how individuals respond to historical forces larger than themselves.
There are 1 books in the Robert Merle Non-Fiction series, published in 1965.
The first book in the Robert Merle Non-Fiction series is Ahmed Ben Bella, published in 1965.
The book is a biography of Ahmed Ben Bella, who led Algeria’s independence movement against France and became the country’s first president in 1963. Merle, who had a long interest in the intersection of politics and human psychology, wrote the biography during Ben Bella’s presidency.
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