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Hello and welcome to the LRB podcast. I'm Adam Schatz and my guest today is Rafael Branche,

a historian at the University of Paris. Rafael is the author of several books, including torture and the French army during the Algerian war,

a path-breaking study published in 2002.

Raphael's latest book, which I've reviewed in the current edition of the Lunch and Review of Books,

is called, Daddy, What Did You Do in Algeria?

It was reviewed widely and admiringly in France. It's a major study of the

experiences of French conscripts in Algeria, not only what they saw and did, but more importantly,

how they did and didn't talk about it, both during the war and after. It's a book about

memory and transmission

and about silence, denial, and their legacy.

So it's relevant not just to the study of the war itself,

but to our understanding of France today.

So thank you, Raphael, for joining us on the LRB podcast.

Thank you for having me.

Rafael, when we first met nearly 20 years ago,

you just published torture in the Army during the Algerian War.

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