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Burleigh, Michael, 1955-
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Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- History -- 20th century.
Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
World politics -- 20th century.
Imperialism.
Cold War.
United States -- Military policy -- History -- 20th century.
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Small wars, faraway ...
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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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Burleigh, Michael, 1955-
Subjects
Low-intensity conflicts (Military science) -- History -- 20th century.
Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
World politics -- 20th century.
Imperialism.
Cold War.
United States -- Military policy -- History -- 20th century.
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New York : Viking, [2013]
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587 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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unmediated
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9780670025459 (hbk.)
0670025453 (hbk.)
Contents:
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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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.
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