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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
c2007.
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| Edition: | Updated and expanded., 1st Harper Perennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The American insurgency
- The Spanish guerrilla against the French
- The Philippine 'insurrection'
- The Irish struggle for independence
- Tito and the Yugoslav partisans
- The Greek resistance
- Kenya and the Mau Mau
- The Algerian war of national independence
- The Vietnamese struggle against the French
- America takes over from France in Vietnam
- The Afghan resistance to the British and the Russians.