Small Wars, Faraway Places · Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 by Burleigh, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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ALSO BY MICHAEL BURLEIGH TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT DEDICATION CONTENTS MAPS INTRODUCTION

1. JAPAN OPENS PANDORA’S BOX

A War for the Future of the World China Korea India The Philippines Indochina Indonesia

2. HARRY TRUMAN’S WORLD

Much to be Modest About ‘Losing’ China The Korean Civil War

3. ARAB NATIONALISM, JEWISH HOMELAND

It’s about Oil Egyptian Resurgence Asking for Trouble in Algeria Not So Holy Land

4. SOME MORE VICTORIOUS THAN OTHERS

The View from the Potomac The View from Red Square The Glorious Loser Loser Twice Over

5. ‘POLICE ACTION’: KOREA

The Master’s Last Throw Phantoms with No Shadows: Enter the Dragon

6. ‘EMERGENCY’: MALAYA

Yesterday’s Heroes, Tomorrow’s Enemies Gurney and Briggs The Tiger Years

7. BY HUK OR BY CROOK: THE PHILIPPINES

Peasant Rebels The Man with a Mouth Organ Night of the Vampires

8. PARACHUTE THE ESCARGOT: INDOCHINA

France’s Vietnam War Enter the Americans ‘Annihilate Them Bit by Bit’ The Agency Invents a Country New Dog, Same Tricks: Lansdale in Vietnam

9. SOMETIMES SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

‘In God We Trust’ and ‘More Bang for the Buck’ Britain: The Long Goodbye ‘Luck be a Lady’

10. HUNGARY AND SUEZ

The Kremlin: Old Guard, New Look Munich on the Nile? Revealed Realities

11. WITH US OR AGAINST US: THE SUB-CONTINENT

Out of Sight, Out of Mind Enter the Dragon, Again

12. LOSING BY WINNING: ALGERIA

Birth of a Nation: Algeria’s Fight for Independence Recapturing the Night Winning the Wider War Resurrection? Lost Soldiers

13. TERROR AND COUNTER-TERROR: KENYA

The Image of Africa ‘The Great One’ The Making of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta The Setting Johnnie Shows that Bwana is Boss

14. THE COLD WAR COMES TO AFRICA

A Blank Slate Sverdlovsk, Cuba and the Congo Tribes and Bribes Guinea and Ghana Weary Men with Glazed Eyes and the White Redoubts

15. BACKYARD BLUES: CUBA

Mare Nostrum The Duck Test Gangster Island Castro Becomes Fidel A Caribbean Animal Farm Thorn in the Flesh or Mortal Threat? All Mouth and No Trousers Playa Girón

16. TO THE BRINK: THE MISSILE CRISIS

A Maze of Options

17. OVERREACH: VIETNAM

Esau’s Birthright: The Sino–Soviet Split Why Vietnam? Illusion and Reality Washing Diem Away

18. WATERSHED OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY

The Great Society Getting with the Programme In Your Guts You Know He’s Nuts Final Straw

EPILOGUE: LEGACIES Acknowledgements Notes Select Bibliography Index