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   The Linchpin: French-German Relations, 1950-1990 » Read Now

   by Julius W. Friend. 164 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   The rapprochment between France and the Federal Republic of Germany five years after the end of World War II was the cornerstone of all subsequent Western European history. Their previous hostility was a basis for arms races and wars--their friendship, the foundation for continually widening...

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   The rapprochment between France and the Federal Republic of Germany five years after the end of World War II was the cornerstone of all subsequent Western European history. Their previous hostility was a basis for arms races and wars--their friendship, the foundation for continually widening European economic and now political community. The unexpected reunification of Germany in 1990 sent shock waves through the French political class. Friend explains the present French-German relationship, first investigating the recent past, then laying out the problems of the present and foreseeable future.

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   France and Germany at Maastricht: Politics and Negotiations to Create the European Union » Read Now

   by Colette Mazzucelli. 356 pgs.

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   France, Germany, and the Western Alliance » Read Now

   by Philip H. Gordon. 136 pgs.

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   German-French Unity, Basis for European Peace » Read Now

   by Hermann Lutz. 276 pgs.

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   France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (Chap. 4 "The Hard Road to Franco-German Rapprochement, 1948-1950" and Chap. 5 "Sound and Fury: The Debate over German Rearmament") » Read Now

   by William I. Hitchcock. 312 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   Historians of the Cold War, argues the author of this book, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, he contends that France has been given short shrift.
   
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   Studies in Diplomacy and Statecraft (Chap. 1 "Franco-German Relations, 1871-1914") » Read Now

   by G. P. Gooch. 388 pgs.

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   The German Influence in France after 1870: The Formation of the French Republic » Read Now

   by Allan Mitchell. 304 pgs.

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   The Divided Path: The German Influence on Social Reform in France after 1870 » Read Now

   by Allan Mitchell. 436 pgs.

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   'The Nation in Arms': Germany and France, 1789-1939, in History Today » Read Now

   by Omer Bartov. 7 pgs.

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    The Bismarckian Policy of Conciliation with France, 1875-1885 » Read Now

    by Pearl Boring Mitchell. 252 pgs.

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    The Franco-German War of 1870-71 (1907) » Read Now

    by Helmuth Von Moltke. 464 pgs.

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    Bismarck, the Hohenzollern Candidacy, and the Origins of the Franco-German War of 1870 » Read Now

    by Lawrence D. Steefel. 308 pgs.

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    Tocqueville and the Odd Couple: A Review of Franco-German Relations, in The National Interest » Read Now

    by Max Beloff. 5 pgs.

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