Other Wallenberg-controlled companies with option schemes in the works include Electrolux, SKF Group and Stora.
Whereas Mr Stora sees Algeria from the perspective of France, Mr Wall takes an outsider's view.
But in doing so he fills in some of the gaps in Mr Stora's narrative.
For Stora, in the 15th century, that meant taking on the king of Sweden to maintain its independence.
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Stora, which is one of the world's largest forestry groups, has long been plagued by the boom-bust cycle in the paper industry.
While it accommodates two 3.5-inch drives (in trays rather than the Stora's more direct insertion method), the MyDitto is rather compact, much thinner than the Stora's cubic form.
Whereas Mr Stora's points of reference for the war are usually French and often cultural (he notes the blossoming of French cinema and the opening of the first supermarkets), Mr Wall's are international and geopolitical.
The product can work as a DLNA and iTunes server, but doesn't yet ship with any network backup software and -- unlike the Stora -- can't integrate with the built-in backup programs in Mac OS or Windows.
It features a simple interface and the physical key requirement provides an additional layer of security that avoids using a vendor's redirection service such as those offered by Cloud Engines for PogoPlug or Axentra for Netgear's Stora.
These include low-cost remote access appliances like the PogoPlug, midrange NAS storage devices such as Netgear's Stora, and expensive but powerful solutions that cater to the technically inclined, such as HP's MediaSmart products powered by Windows Home Server.
Benjamin Stora, perhaps France's leading historian of Algeria, refuses to jump to conclusions: modern Algeria, with 60% of the population under the age of 30 and with most people living in the cities, not the countryside, is a far cry from the Algeria which broke free from France two generations ago.
While Mr Stora's book (a translation, at times awkward, of three volumes in French) encompasses the whole narrative of modern Algeria, from the first landings of the conquering French, through their ignominious departure and on to Algeria's present agony, Irwin Wall contents himself with just one episode of that narrative: the struggle for independence.
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