Klaus Larres is Reader and Jean Monnet Professor in the School of Politics at the Queen's University of Belfast. His previous work includes "Politics of Illusion: Churchill, Eisenhower and the German Question" (in German, 1995); "A History of the Federal Republic, 1949-1989" (co-author, in German, 1999); "The Federal Republic of Germany since 1949" (co-editor, 1996), "Germany and the United States in the 20th Century" (co-editor, in German, 1997), "Uneasy Allies: British-German Relations and European Integration since 1945" (ed., 2000), and "Germany since Unification: The Development of the...