Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft

By Philip D. Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice

Book Overview

Officials mingled in the lobby of the Oktyabrskaia Hotel - shaking hands, sipping champagne, signing their names - and Germany was united. In this undramatic fashion, the international community closed the book on the drama of divided Germany. But nothing so momentous could be quite so quiet and uncomplicated, as this volume makes strikingly clear. This book goes behind the scenes through access to still not opened archives in many countries. Germany Unified and Europe Transformed discloses the moves and manoevres that ended the Cold War division of Europe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674353242
• ISBN13: 9780674353244
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 493 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Interesting with a bias.

While it seems that you either hate or love this book, this "liberal with half a brain" or maybe more than half, found it interesting and well written. It added to my information about this fascinating period of change in the world. Well researched from two insiders points of view. When reading, you have to remember the background of the writers and not take everything as gospel. If you're interested in gathering information about how things work, this is a good book to read.

WOW - what a wonderful and intelligent read!

Condi Rice and Philip Zelikow take you behind the scenes of this most historic event, and they do so in an intelligent and insightful way. One can see reading this book why Rice is now the National Security Adivsor to President George Bush following in the footsteps of such greats as Kissinger and Scowcroft. The best book on this subject out there, every college and university should have this GREAT book in their libraries! WONDERFUL READ! INSIGHTFUL! INTELLIGENT! THOUGHT PROVOKING! Only a liberal with half a brain wouldn't enjoy it...

Fascinating insider tale of world-changing events

Condoleeza Rice and Philip Zelikow have put together a fascinating, highly readable reconstruction of world-changing events that signalled the end of the Cold War and ushered in a wholly new frame of reference in geopolitics. This is definitely a work that foreign-policy "junkies" will relish, but one that general audiences would enjoy, too.