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Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965, Michael Burleight translated A classic of early modernismA sweeping history of the Cold Wars many hot wars born in the last gasps of empire The Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new archival research, prize winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by examining the many, largely forgotten, hot wars fought