Defiant 1957: Vol. 2

By Gabriel Souleyka

Algeria, 1957. The war for independence is tearing apart the mountains and the families who call them home.

Baktha is sixteen. Her father has just been killed. Her village exists now only as smoke and memory. And something in her, stronger than fear, tells her she cannot stay.

She joins the maquis.

She learns to walk without sound, to shoot without flinching, to carry the dead without breaking. Around her: men and women who have surrendered everything for a single certainty. Algeria will be free.

But war is nothing like she imagined. It is made of impossible grief, of bonds forged in three days and severed in three seconds, of napalm burning the hillsides and courage that refuses to go out.

Defiant 1957: Vol Two descends into the heart of Wilaya IV, alongside a generation of female fighters history chose to forget, women who carried rifles, ran intelligence, washed the bodies of sisters dead since Tuesday, and kept going anyway.

A rare work of historical precision driven by a fierce female voice, Defiant 1957 stands at the crossroads of Pan-African memory and resistance literature.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2487324309
• ISBN13: 9782487324305
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Tioleja Editions
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"