Small wars, faraway places : global insurrection and the making of the modern world, 1945-1965 / Michael Burleigh.

From the halls of Montezuma to the Green Zone of Baghdad
Japan opens Pandora's box
Harry Truman's world
Arab nationalism, Jewish homeland
Some more victorious than others
"Police action" : Korea
"Emergency" : Malaya
By Huk or by crook : the Philippines
Parachute the escargot : Indochina
Sometimes special relationship
Hungary and Suez
With us or against us : the Sub-continent
Losing by winning : Algeria
Terror and counter-terror : Kenya
The Cold War comes to Africa
Backyard blues : Cuba
To the brink : the Missile Crisis
Overreach : Vietnam
Watershed of the American century.