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

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By Michael Burleigh. From Viking Adult.
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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.

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