Victorious Insurgencies: Four Rebellions That Shaped Our World

Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe. Most of these rebellions fail, but Victorious insurgencies: four rebellions that shaped our world analyses four twentieth-century conflicts in which the success of the insurgents permanently altered the global political arena - the Maoists in China against Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s, the Viet Minh in French Indochina from 1945 to 1954, Castro's followers against Batista in Cuba from 1956 to 1959, and the mujahideen in Soviet Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989.

Author: Anthony James Joes
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 10/14/2010
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.32w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9780813126142

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/02/2011
Choice 06/01/2011

About the Author

Anthony James Joes, professor of political science at Saint Joseph's University, is the author of Urban Guerrilla Warfare, Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency, America and Guerrilla Warfare, and many other books.

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