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Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World
by Michael Burleigh
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0230768873
- ISBN 13
- 9780230768871
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About This Item
UK: Macmillan, 2013. Soft cover. Very Good. 23cm x 15cm. p/b 588 pages, condition is very good. The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power- in Africa, Asia and the Middle East- whose bloody consequences haunt us still.
Synopsis
A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many “hot” wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. 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. As once-great Western colonial empires collapsed, counter-insurgencies campaigns raged in the Philippines, the Congo, Iran, and other faraway places. Dozens of new nations struggled into existence, the legacies of which are still felt today. Placing these vicious struggles alongside the period-defining United States and Soviet standoffs in Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba, Burleigh swerves from Algeria to Kenya, to Vietnam and Kashmir, interspersing top-level diplomatic negotiations with portraits of the charismatic local leaders. The result is a dazzling work of history, a searing analysis of the legacy of imperialism and a reminder of just how the United States became the world’s great enforcer.
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- Hanselled Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62108
- Title
- Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World
- Author
- Michael Burleigh
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0230768873
- ISBN 13
- 9780230768871
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2013
- Size
- 23cm x 15cm
- Keywords
- war military
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