October 20, 2006

Henri Alleg's Memoir of Torture Is Published in English for First Time in 48 Years

By DAVID GLENN

EXTREMITIES: "He had removed the wire from one of the pincers and fastened it down along the entire width of my chest. ... They had thrown cold water over me in order to increase the intensity of the current, and between every two spasms I trembled with cold. All around me sitting on the packing cases, Cha and his friends emptied bottles of beer."

In 64 pages of relentless detail, the journalist Henri Alleg's pamphlet The Question described his torture at the hands of French

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