SIGNED COPY First Edition Steidl, Göttingen. 2011. Reprint. Martin Parr, Gerry Badger: The Photobook, volume 3, page 190/191. Reprint of the legendary book from 1960, taken from the "Protest Box", Steidl produced in 2011. New, unread, mint. Alvermann`s first and most important book. Softcover. Text in german. Dirk Alvermann was mentioned by Martin Parr in the "Photonews" and the "Aperture magazine" as probably the most important photographer and bookmaker coming from east-germany. Alvermann is also famous for "Keine Experimente" (1961) and "Ich liebe Dich" (1979). "When he went to Algeria in the 1950s Dirk Alvermann was only eighteen, a rebellious West German teenager thrilled by the struggle for freedom by the Algerian people against French colonial rule. Together with a unit of the Algerian liberation army, he found a way to cross the hermetically sealed border from Tunisia into the Eastern Algerian war zone, determined to keep a photographic record of the events that were unfolding there. After his return to West Germany he set about planning the publication of his work in the most accessible form available. The book should go from hand to hand like a political manifesto.