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Small wars, faraway places, global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965, Michael Burleigh

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Small wars, faraway places, global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965, Michael Burleigh
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-567) and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
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Small wars, faraway places
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bibliography
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834432611
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Michael Burleigh
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global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965
Summary
Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, "hot" wars fought around the world
Table Of Contents
Introduction : From the halls of Montezuma to the Green Zone of Baghdad -- Japan opens Pandora's box -- Harry Truman's world -- Arab nationalism, Jewish homeland -- Some more victorious than others -- "Police action" : Korea -- "Emergency" : Malaya -- By Huk or by crook : the Philippines -- Parachute the escargot : Indochina -- Sometimes special relationship -- Hungary and Suez -- With us or against us : the Sub-continent -- Losing by winning : Algeria -- Terror and counter-terror : Kenya -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Backyard blues : Cuba -- To the brink : the Missile Crisis -- Overreach : Vietnam -- Watershed of the American century -- Epilogue : Legacies
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