Burleigh, Michael, 1955- author.
New York, New York : Viking, [2013]
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-567) and index.
• 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.
• 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.

Subjects:

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

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