Praeger Publishers, Date: 1997-06-30. Hardcover. Good. 1997. Praeger Publishers ISBN 0275957047 9780275957049 [US]

Praeger, Date: 1997. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0275957047 1997. Praeger ISBN 0275957047 9780275957049 [GB]

Praeger 1997 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN: 0275957047.

ISBN10: 0275957047, ISBN13: 9780275957049, [publisher: ABC-Clio, Incorporated] Hardcover pp. 176
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1997]

Praeger, Date: 1997-06-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1997. Praeger ISBN 0275957047 9780275957049 [US]

Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Forced to Choose: France, the Atlantic Alliance, and NATO -- Then and Now. ISBN 0275957047 9780275957049 [GB]

ISBN10: 0275957047, ISBN13: 9780275957049, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Westport] Hardcover Hardcover. Post-World War II France was to disappoint the hopes of such American statesmen as Dean Acheson and George Kennan, who looked to it to take the lead in Western Europe in the face of a growing soviet threat. Dogged by the humiliation of the wartime occupation, obsessed by fear of a resurgent Germany, jealous of the British ascendancy gained during the war, and dominated by an intellectual class almost wholly given over to the prevailing antifascism (and, therefore, philo-sovietism) of the postwar, France would take 20 years to live up to its promise as the "motor" of Western Europe. Though it was perhaps inevitable that France, falling on the western divide of the Iron Curtain, would join the US camp, it did so with a loss of sovereignty, symbolized in NATO's integrated command. This was a situation which Charles de Gaulle, after his return to power in 1958, would seek to undo. His successors have continued this quest to this day. Cogan explores the Gaullist argument that the North Atlantic Alliance and NATO are two distinct movements against a background of ever-increasing threats - or perceived threats - by the Soviet Union, culminating in the North Korean invasion of 1950.The French, desperate to emerge from a position of wartime inferiority, willingly abandoned hopes of building a defense of Europe by Europeans alone. France threw itself ...