La Grande Guerre dans l’imaginaire maghrébin Trois œuvres d’expression française et leur destinée

The Empire provided over 600, 000 ­combatants during the Great War, more than half from North Africa. If the ­bât’ ­d’Af are abundantly present in colonial literature, the colonised imaginary has retained little of the 14-18 episode, and, where it has, it is presented in a largely negative way. These three works speak of the suspicion weighing on any testimonial relating to the Great War in the Maghreb.