Length5h 59m
About this audiobook
The Cold War was never fought only between the United States and Soviet Union, but across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America, local struggles became entangled with the world's great ideological confrontation.
The book follows conflicts including the North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Sand War, Chadian Civil War, Western Sahara War, East Timor conflict, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, Chadian-Libyan Conflict, Salvadoran Civil War, Iran-Iraq War, Second Sudanese Civil War, Sri Lankan Civil War, and First Liberian Civil War, alongside dozens of other struggles that stretched across the decades.
The Cold War in Conflict explores these wars on their own terms, examining the local forces that drove them while showing how superpower rivalry transformed them. Together, they reveal a Cold War far more complicated than a confrontation between two nuclear powers—a global struggle whose battlefields were often thousands of miles from Washington and Moscow.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Education and Learning
Length5 hrs 59 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 28, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Cold War Conflict Explanation
2First Sudanese Civil War & Suez Crisis
3Congo Crisis
4The Nicaraguan Revolution (1961-1979)
5The North Yemen Civil War (1962-1970)
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6The Dhofar Rebellion (1962-1976)
7Sand War (1963) & The Aden Emergency (1963-1967)
8The Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979) & Dominican Civil War
9The First Chadian Civil War (1965-1979)
10Bolivian Campaign (1966-1967) & South African Border War (1966-1989)
11The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) & The Naxalite-Maoist Insurgency (1967-Present
12The Malaysian Communist Insurgency (1968-1989)
13Al-Wadiah War (1969) & The First Yemenite War (1972)
14The Angolan Civil War (1974-2002) & The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991
15The Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990)
16The Western Sahara War (1975-1991)
17The East Timor Occupation (1975-1999)
18Operation Condor (1975-1989)
19The Cabinda War (1975-Present) & Shaba I (1977)
20The Ogaden War (1977-1978)
21The Cambodian Vietnamese War (1977-1991) & The Mozambican Civil War (1977-1992)
22Shaba II (1978)
23Uganda-Tanzania War (1978-1979)
24The Chadian-Libyan Conflict (1978-1987)
25The Second Yemenite War (1979)
26The Salvadoran Civil War (1979-1992)
27The Ugandan Bush War (1980-1986)
28The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
29The Peruvian Internal Conflict (1980-Present)
30The Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005)
31The Sri Lankan Civil War (1983-2009)
32The South Yemen Civil War (1986)
33The Lord's Resistance Army Insurgency (1987-2006)
34The Bougainville Civil War (1988-1998)
35The Mauritania-Senegal Border War (1989-1991)
36The First Liberian Civil War (1989-1997)
37The Overall Impact
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