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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Burleigh, Michael, 1955-       by title:      Small wars, faraway ...         MARC Display

Small wars, faraway places [electronic resource] : global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965 / Michael Burleigh. by Burleigh, Michael, 1955- New York : Viking, c2013. 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. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=99428604-9720-436C-80E4-B1C119674EE0 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/small-wars-faraway?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/1523-1/{99428604-9720-436C-80E4-B1C119674EE0}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781101638033 (electronic bk.) 1101638036 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource (587 pages) : maps 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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