Small Wars, Far Away Places
11 April 2013Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle East - whose bloody consequences haunt us still.
Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's brilliant analytic skills and clear eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those conflicts. He takes...
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11 April 2013456 pages
9780230771505Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Superb, scholarly, insightful and often witty ... magnificentLiterary Review
Terrific ... Burleigh writes with a keen eye for self-righteousness, hypocrisy and unintended consequences. He is quite brilliant at puncturing the vanities of history's great and good.Dominic Sandbrook, Evening Standard
A brilliant, complex, contradictory story, replete with character and incident, pungent and pithy and refreshingly free of preaching ... the author delights in the detail, the small moment illustrating a large truthBen Macintyre, The Times
Vividly written and stimulating ... the raw truth, conveyed in scintillating language by a master of historical irony and of the grimly entertaining. If history for grown-ups is what you're after, this is it.George Walden, Sunday Telegraph
