Violent politics : a history of insurgency, terrorism & guerrilla war, from the American Revolution to Iraq /
An examination of the role of insurgent tactics in world conflicts throughout the past two-and-a-half centuries places current issues in a context of world history while covering events that marked such examples as the war in Iraq.
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New York :
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c2007.
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| Edition: | Updated and expanded., 1st Harper Perennial ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Violent politics : |b a history of insurgency, terrorism & guerrilla war, from the American Revolution to Iraq / |c William R. Polk. |
| 250 | |a Updated and expanded., 1st Harper Perennial ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Harper, |c c2007. | ||
| 300 | |a xxvi, 277 p. ; |c 21 cm. | ||
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| 500 | |a Previous edition: New York : HarperCollins, 2007. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-266) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g The |t American insurgency -- |g The |t Spanish guerrilla against the French -- |g The |t Philippine 'insurrection' -- |g The |t Irish struggle for independence -- |t Tito and the Yugoslav partisans -- |g The |t Greek resistance -- |t Kenya and the Mau Mau -- |g The |t Algerian war of national independence -- |g The |t Vietnamese struggle against the French -- |t America takes over from France in Vietnam -- |g The |t Afghan resistance to the British and the Russians. |
| 520 | |a An examination of the role of insurgent tactics in world conflicts throughout the past two-and-a-half centuries places current issues in a context of world history while covering events that marked such examples as the war in Iraq. | ||
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