Rather than mark the end of conflict, the end of World War II began a half century of ideological, political, military, economic struggles, and many with century-old antecedents. This work brings together in encyclopedic format most of the major events of the last half century that can be classified as conflict. While war is the ultimate conflict, the volume includes assassinations, coups, insurgency, terrorism, massacres, and genocide. It provides detailed information on the people, places and events that have produced conflict and its resolution since 1945.
Many entries trace the...
Rather than mark the end of conflict, the end of World War II began a half century of ideological, political, military, economic struggles, and man...
This is an ideal reference work, for it contains more than 10,000 entries arranged chronologically by year, month, and day. Each entry is a concise, factual description of an event together with relevant background information and identification of the locale and the major participants. As the author puts it, this is a chronology of conflict rather than of war.' His intent is that it should be used as a research tool.' Fortunately, it does contain a detailed index as well as a glossary of abbreviations. "Infantry"
An historical chronology of some of the grimmest events of the past two...
This is an ideal reference work, for it contains more than 10,000 entries arranged chronologically by year, month, and day. Each entry is a concise...
