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A provocative analysis of the deadly Cold War conflicts that devastated countries and communities far from Moscow and Washington
Transforming battlegrounds in Africa, Asia, and Latin America into veritable hellscapes, the surrogate wars of the Cold War era left behind a legacy of collective trauma and social conflict that have persisted into the present. In this ambitious work, Alfred W. McCoy uses a bottom-up, outside-in approach to offer an unexpected new perspective on the longest, most consequential conflict in modern history.
McCoy renders an intimate portrait of both embattled covert operatives and committed antiwar protesters, thus humanizing the history of the Cold War—a history that has too often been told in impersonal terms of economic growth, nuclear arsenals, or diplomatic ententes.
As today's great powers devote humanity's scarce resources toward ratcheting up a "new cold war" in the face of a worsening climate crisis, McCoy's history is an important reminder that otherwise- ordinary individuals once helped end a global conflict that threatened nuclear holocaust.
Contents
Chapter 1: The Cold War's Long Shadow
Part One: Struggle Over Europe and Its Colonial Empires
Chapter 2: USA vs. USSR
Chapter 3: Europe—Cockpit of Conflict
Chapter 4: Fighting Communism in Southeast Asia
Chapter 5: War in Korea
Chapter 6: End of Empire in the Middle East
Chapter 7: Covert Action in the Caribbean
Chapter 8: Cold War Comes to Africa
Part Two: One, Two, Many Vietnams
Chapter 9: The Vietnam War
Chapter 10: Jakarta Is Coming
Chapter 11: CIA Coup in Chile
Part Three: Surrogate Wars in the Third World
Chapter 12: Struggle for Southern Africa
Chapter 13: Civil Wars in Central America
Chapter 14: Afghanistan's Imperial Graveyard
Part Four: Close of the Cold War
Chapter 15: Collapse of the Soviet Empire
Chapter 16: Toward a New Cold War
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Men on the Spot, Cold War, 1946-1991
