Download or read book Small Wars, Faraway Places written by Michael Burleigh and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2013 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prize-winning historian describes how the collapses in power in the Philippines, the Congo and Iran, among other places, contributed to Cold War tensions and explains how this cemented the United States' role as the world's great enforcer.