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Small Wars, Faraway Places : Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World 1945-1965
by Burleigh, Michael
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0670025453
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025459
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
New York: Viking. 2013. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy in 'as new' condition. Black & white maps. 588 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Like New. 1st US Edition. Hardback.
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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- Bookseller
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB324255
- Title
- Small Wars, Faraway Places : Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World 1945-1965
- Author
- Burleigh, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Edition
- 1st US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670025453
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025459
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- military-general;
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Clarence Gardens, South Australia
About Adelaide Booksellers
Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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