'Angela Stent's book is a scholarly and extremely readable and lively treatment of a subject which every reader of the daily press will acknowledge as being most timely. It illuminates the intricate connection between politics and economics in the relations between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany. Hence the book is of great importance to anyone interested in the current dilemmas of US foreign policy particularly but not exclusively as regards Europe.' Adam B. Ulam, Director, Russian Research Center, Harvard University