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Author:

Burleigh, Michael, 1955-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

587 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)--History--20th century.
Military history, Modern--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.
World politics--20th century.
Imperialism.
Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-567) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0670025453 (hbk.)
9780670025459 (hbk.)

LCCN:

2013017207

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)