Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 Historical British Biographies and solace to millions “I

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the course of their fates is altered

Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965 Historical British Biographies and solace to millions “IThe collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, whose consequences haunt us still. With insight and authority, this magisterial book takes the reader on a historical journey from Palestine to Pakistan, from Kenya to Cuba, from Algeria to Vietnam, to reveal the national aspirations, ideological conflicts and Cold War realpolitik that have shaped the