Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage

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...