An account based on British archival sources of the search for a co-ordinated Anglo-French programme of economic recovery which would define the shape of postwar Europe. The pursuit of this goal is traced against the background of the Cold War, the provision of American economic aid and the revival of German industry. It is demonstrated how the emergence of these factors led France to turn instead to European integration on the model of the Schuman Plan.

Inhalt
Preface - Introduction - The Road from Ruin - Steel - Coal - The Saar - The Ruhr - The Marshall Plan - The Schuman Plan - The Parting of the Ways - Sources and Bibliography - Index