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"In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the 21st century - first, the 2003 war with Iraq and its chaotic aftermath and, second, the financial crash of 2008 - have threatened the general acceptance that continued progress under the benign (or sometimes not so benign) gaze of the western powers is the only way forwards. And as America turns inwards and Europe is beset by austerity politics and populist nationalism, the post-war consensus looks less and less secure. But is this really the worst of times? In a forensic examination of the world we now live in, historian Michael Burleigh sets out to answer that question."--

Intro -- PRAISE FOR Small Wars, Faraway Places -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- ALSO BY MICHAEL BURLEIGH -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- INTRODUCTION -- From the Halls of Montezuma to the Green Zone of Baghdad -- 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'.