Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965
- ISBN-10
- 0143125958
- ISBN-13
- 9780143125952
- Category
- Anti-imperialist movements
- Pages
- 587
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Michael Burleigh
Description
A prize-winning historian describes how the collapses in power in the Philippines, the Congo and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the United States' role as the world's great enforcer.
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- 2013
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