Bibliograph

Victorious insurgencies, four rebellions that shaped our world, Anthony James Joes

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Victorious insurgencies, four rebellions that shaped our world, Anthony James Joes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Victorious insurgencies

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

703156883

Responsibility statement

Anthony James Joes

Sub title

four rebellions that shaped our world

Summary

Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe. Most of these rebellions fail, but Four Rebellions that Shaped Our World analyzes four twentieth-century conflicts in which the success of the insurgents permanently altered the global political arena: the Maoists in China against Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s; the Viet Minh in French Indochina from 1945 to 1954; Castro's followers against Batista in Cuba from 1956 to 1959; and the mujahideen in Soviet Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989

Table Of Contents

Introduction: who cares about yesterday's wars? -- China : the long war, 1929-1949 -- French Vietnam : a war of illusions -- Cuba : the house of cards -- Afghanistan : end of the Red Empire -- Lessons learned--or not

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