LOYD E. LEE is Professor of History and Chair of the department at the State University of New York, College at New Paltz. He is the editor of World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Greenwood, 1997), and the author of The War Years: A Global History of the Second World War (1989), The Politics of Harmony: Civil Service, Liberalism, and Social Reform in Baden, 1800-1850 (1980), and other publications on German and global history.