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Index
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Abbas, Ferhat, 86–7, 88, 89, 129, 324, 348
Abdullah, King of Jordan, 84, 100
Abdullah CD, 161
Academy of Peace and Tranquillity (Taiping racecourse), 173–4
Acheson, Dean, 3, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 61, 64, 132, 136, 258, 259, 265, 267, 268, 446, 463, 493
Achiary, André, 88–9
Adams, John Quincy, 3, 52, 424
Adamson, Joy, 353
Adenauer, Konrad, 176
Adoula, Cyrille, 393, 396, 397
Afghanistan, 3
Africa, 6, 102, 121–2, 379–408. See also individual countries
and Britain, 401–8
and United States, 378, 379–82
Afrikaner National Party, 355
Agatha Operation (1946), 96
Ah Shoo, 183
AIOC (Anglo–Iranian Oil Company), 76, 263–4, 265–6, 268
Air America, 461
Air Defense Command, 59
Ajax Operation, 269–74
Aldrich, Winthrop, 301–2
Algeria, 6, 85–90, 352, 381
Constantine Plan, 345
and Cuba, 445
demonstrations against the French and crackdown on Muslims, 88–90
failed coup (1961), 348–9
French rule, 85–86, 88–90, 129–30
independence, 347, 351
Muslim population, 322
OAS attacks and killings, 350–1
rise in nationalism, 86–7, 88
and Second World War, 87–8
Algerian Communist Party, 338
Algerian war, 321–52, 401
atrocities committed by FLN, 326
background, 321–2
Barricades Week, 347
battle for Algiers, 332–6, 351
criticism of French over, 337
death toll, 326
and de Gaulle, 341–2, 344–5, 346–7, 348, 349, 351
Evian Agreement (1962), 351
fighting between FLN and French, 323, 330, 345, 346, 348
first phase, 323
French counter-insurgency strategy, 330–1, 336
French troop numbers, 328
peace talks, 349, 351
and Soviet Union, 338
staunching of flow of FLN arms from ALN bases in Morocco and Tunisia, 335
and United States, 338–40
use of torture by French, 333–4
Algiers, battle for, 332–6, 351
Ali la Pointe, 332, 335
Alliance Party (Malay), 187
Almond, General Edward ‘Ned,’ 140–1
ALN (Armée de Libération Nationale), 322, 328–9, 335, 345–6, 348
Al-Wafd (Delegation) Party, 81
American Friends of Vietnam, 232
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 252
Amin, Mufti Hajj, 100
Anadyr Operation, 443–4
Anastasia, Albert, 416
Anderson, George, 451
Andropov, Yuri, 281
Anglo–Egyptian Treaty (1936), 81–2, 84
Anglo–Iranian Oil Company. See AIOC
Anglo–Iraqi Treaty (1922), 74
Anglo–Persian Oil Company, 74, 76
Angola, 401
Anvil Operation (1954) (Kenya), 371–2
Ap Bac, battle of (1963), 469–70
Apocalypse, Operation, 351
Appian of Alexandria, 10
Aquino, Benigno, 208
Arab Revolt (1936–9), 93
Arafat, Yasser, 289
Aramco, 265, 274
Árbenz, President Jacobo, 411–2
Arc-en-Ciel (Cholon), 220
Armas, Carlos, 412
Armée de Libération Nationale. See ALN
Armée Nationale Congolese (ANC), 386
Aron, Raymond, 340
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam), 461, 469–70, 490
Assault Brigade 2506, 435–6
Association of the Friends of the Manifesto, 88
Atkinson, Brooks, 53
Atlante Operation, 223, 224
Atlantic Charter (1941), 15, 359–60
atom bomb, 67, 114–15, 131, 132
Atomic Energy Commission, 59
Atoms for Peace campaign, 256
AT&T, 417
Attlee, Clement, 101, 111, 112, 115, 267
August Storm operation (1945), 104
Aussaresses, Major Paul, 334
Australia, 121
Autumn Harvest Rebellion (1946) (Cholla), 71
Ayub Khan, General, 314–5, 317, 413
B-29 Superfortress, 59–60, 101, 144, 152, 228
Baghdad Pact, 288, 290, 316
Balfour Declaration (1917), 90, 120
Bali, 45
Ball, George, 247, 392–3, 446–7, 449, 463, 468, 481
Ballard, J.G., 118
Banda, Hastings, 404, 408
Bandung Conference (1955), 4, 318, 337, 380
al-Banna, Hassan, 83, 86
Bao Dai, Emperor, 33, 125, 128, 215, 232, 238
Baring, Lady Molly, 353, 354, 355
Baring, Sir Evelyn, 353, 354–5, 356, 361, 363, 364, 370, 371, 374, 375–6, 377
Barnett, Correlli, 117
Batista, Fulgencio, 415–21
Bay of Pigs, 434–6, 437, 448, 492
Beal, John Robinson, 107–8
Beaufre, General André, 331
Bedell Smith, General Walter, 256
Beeley, Harold, 340
Begin, Menachem, 91, 92
Belgium
and the Congo, 384–6
Ben Badis, Sheikh Abd al-Hamid, 86
Ben Bella, Ahmed, 87, 321–2, 328, 329, 339, 348, 352, 445–6, 455, 493
Ben-Gurion, David, 91, 289, 297–8
Bergson, Henri, 248–9
Beria, Lavrentii, 60, 278
Berlin Wall, construction of, 430
Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 469
Bevin, Ernst, 62, 94, 115, 119–21, 122, 123, 124
Biaggi, Jean-Baptiste, 327
Bigeard, Colonel Marcel, 331, 333–4, 335
Binza Group, 389–90
Birch, John, 105
Bissell, Richard, 429, 437
Blaizot, Roger, 127
Blanc, Camille, 349
Blundell, Michael, 361
Bohannan, Lieutenant Charles ‘Bo,’ 199, 235
Bohlen, Charles ‘Chip,’ 51, 61, 446
Bolivia, 414
Bonesteel, Charles, 68
Bonsal, Philip, 423
Boothby, Bob, 402
Born Free (Adamson), 353
Borodin, Mikhail, 30
Bose, Chandra Subhas, 15, 17, 22
Boucher, Major-General Charles, 166, 167
Boumédiène, Houari, 348, 352, 493
Bourne, Geoffrey, 187
Brewster, Owen, 63–4
Brezhnev, Leonid, 279, 455
Bridges, Styles, 317–18
Briggs, Sir Harold, 168–9, 175, 177
Britain, 114–25, 257–63
abandoning of support for Greece and Turkey, 56–7
and Africa, 401–8
armed forces reduction, 403
and Egypt, 81–2, 83–4
election (1945), 115
election (1950/51), 257
and India, 21–5, 121
and Indonesia, 43–4, 45
and Iran, 75–77, 79, 264–75
and Iraq, 74–5
and Korean War, 160
maintaining of overseas empire after the war, 122–3
and Middle East, 73–4, 288–9
nuclear weapons, 262
and Palestine, 90–9, 120–1, 123
post-war economy and decline, 114, 115–19
post-war rationing, 117–18
relationship with Dominions, 121
and restoration of French rule in Indochina, 35, 123–4
and Second World War, 114–15
and South Africa, 404–5
and Suez Crisis, 283–303, 339
trade unions, 117, 119
and United States, 259–62
winter (1947), 117–18
British Advisory Mission (BRIAM), 466
British Petroleum (BP), 76, 274
Broadbent, Robert, 367
Brockway, Fenner, 375
Brooke, Field Marshal Alan, 114–15
Brunei, 188
Buddhist crisis, 470–1
Bulganin, Nikolai, 300, 317
Bumboko, Justin, 390
Bundy, McGeorge, 446, 460–1, 480, 482–3, 486, 487, 489
Burgess, Guy, 299–300
Burke, Admiral Arleigh, 426
Burma, 15
Bush, George W., 1, 3
Butler, Major-General Smedley, 410
Butler, Rab, 258, 263, 297, 299, 301, 302
Buttercup Operation (1953) (Kenya), 370
Byrnes, James, 49–50
Cabot Lodge, Henry, 215, 471–2, 473, 474, 477, 479
Cadogan, Alexander, 124
Calvert, Brigadier ‘Mad Mike,’ 167
Cambodia, 35, 230, 231
Campbell, Judith, 440
Camus, Albert, 337
Can, Ngo Dinh, 471
Canada, 121
Can Lao (Revolutionary Personalist Labour Party), 238–9
Carlton Greene, Hugh, 177
Carpentier, Marcel, 127, 128
Casablanca conference (1943), 402
Castle, Barbara, 375
Castries, Colonel Christian, 225, 227
Castro, Fidel, 9, 417–36, 442, 493
and Agrarian Reform Law, 424–5
background, 417–19
and Bay of Pigs fiasco, 436
CIA operations against and plot to assassinate, 429–30, 434–5, 439
and Cuban Missile Crisis, 452–3
Kennedy’s vendetta against, 436
personality, 420
popularity, 421
pronounces himself a Marxist-Leninist, 430, 440
regime of, 421–6
relations with Cuban Communist Party, 423–6
rise to power, 419–21
sponsoring of subversion, 454
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