1: Dividing the World
2: Cold War Empires: Europe
3: Cold War Empires: Asia
4: Nuclear Weapons and the Early Cold War
5: The German Question
6: The Third World
7: Economics, Ideology, and Alliance Solidarity
8: Nuclear Weapons and the Escalation of the Cold War
9: The Cuban Missile Crisis
10: The New Cold War History: First Impressions
Notes, Bibliography, Index
John Lewis Gaddis is Robert Lovett Professor of
History at Yale University. His many books include Strategies of
Containment, The Long Peace, and The United States and the End of
the Cold War.
'A masterly review of the early phases of the conflict between the United States, Russia, China and their respective allies...it is clear, thorough and judicious; in short, magnificent.' The Economist Review 'A new narrative of the first half of the Cold War up to the Cuban missile crisis...We Know Now is an important book. It deserves a wide readership.' Taylor Downing, The Observer
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