Germany and the United States

Modern Germany and its shifting and ambivalent relations with its neighbors and the United States are the subject of this lucid survey by an eminent diplomatic historian. Beginning with Bismarck's forging of a nation with 'iron and blood, ' Gatzke tells Germany's relentless struggle for domination in Europe and in the West, its defeat in two world wars, its division, East Germany's travail, and West Germany's search for identity as a modern democratic state.