Small Wars, Far Away Places(English, Paperback, Burleigh Michael)

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Small Wars, Far Away Places(English, Paperback, Burleigh Michael) is written by Burleigh Michael and published by Pan Macmillan. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 033052948X (ISBN 10) and 9780330529488 (ISBN 13).

The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle East - whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those conflicts. He takes us on a historical journey from Algeria to Cuba, from Malaysia to Palestine, and from Kenya to Vietnam and, in so doing, he reframes mid-twentieth-century history by forcing us to look away from the Cold War to the hot wars that continue to afflict us. The result is a dazzling work of history, which examines the death of colonialism with passion, insight and genuine understanding of what it feels like to be caught in the middle of realpolitik.