Wars in the Third World Since 1945

by Guy Arnold

With nuclear stalemate holding the superpowers in check during the Cold War, violence proliferated in the Third World. Sometimes this took the form of colonial liberation wars as the old European empires disintegrated after the Second World War (Algeria 1954-1962 or Kenya 1952-1959); sometimes the violence was between Third World countries such as the Iran-Iraq War, and sometimes it involved the major powers directly: the Korean War, the Vietnam War,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474291023
• ISBN13: 9781474291026
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"