..".telling the story of German unification] primarily from the French perspective provides a more detached yet highly informed account of the diplomacy." - Foreign Affairs

"Bozo's masterly book is the definitive study of French President Mitterrand's important, and often denied or dismissed, contribution to German unification and to the reunification of Europe. It is indispensable to anyone interested in these momentous events, in French foreign policy, and -- in the truth." - Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University

"This outstanding study... is obligatory reading on the end of the...