"We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History"
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Title
"We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History"
Description
This is an image of the cover of John Lewis Gaddis's book, to which the plot summary is as follows:
Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Know provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis.
Did the Soviet Union want world revolution? Why did the USSR send missiles to Cuba? What made the Cold War last as long as it did? The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective. Based on the latest findings of Cold War historians and extensive research in American archives as well as the recently opened archives in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and China, We Now Know provides a vividly written, eye-opening account of the Cold War during the years from the end of World War II to its most dangerous moment, the Cuban missile crisis.
list of authors
John Lewis Gaddis - He is an American military historian, political scientist, and writer, as well as the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. He is best known for his work on the Cold War and grand strategy.
Publisher
Clarendon Press, Oxford, England.
The text was first published on July 9, 1998.
The text was first published on July 9, 1998.
Source
From AMM's personal archive
Subject
The Way the Crow Flies
