Title:
Violent politics : a history of insurgency, terrorism & guerrilla war, from the American Revolution to Iraq
Author:
Polk, William Roe, 1929-
ISBN:
9780061236204
9780061236198
Personal Author:
Edition:
Updated and expanded., 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper, ©2007, 2008.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 277 pages ; 21 cm
General Note:
Previous edition: New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
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.
Abstract:
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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