The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. In all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period, the European colonial powers employed locally recruited militias - styled as 'loyalists' - to fight their 'dirty wars'.
These loyalist histories have been neglected in the nationalist narratives that have dominated the post-decolonization landscape, and this book offers the first...
The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were ...
