Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 by Michael Burleigh

Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965

Michael Burleigh

587 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
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A trenchant and thought-provoking account of the death of empire by one of our finest historians.The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power whose bloody consequences haunt u...

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