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A History of U.S. Military Forces in Germany (Westview Special Studies in Milita
15 December 2015
History as it Happened
Author has taken pains to condense into one single volume what could take several lengthy approaches to accomplish. Yet, the study reveals some factors which were not ordinarily available to the American people. For example, seventy plus years of Franco - German animosity and friction appeared to be almost impossible to overcome. The Americans, along with the British, worked for a good 10 years to "grind down" the French fear-based opposition to any form (however mild) of integration of a resurgent Germany in the postwar scheme of
things. Even though I lived through this entire period, I had largely forgotten this backstage sideshow in what was
known as the "Cold War". Unity was, in its own way, a fragile thing (and in the new century, still is).
Of further interest is the inclusion of the attitudes and opinions of the German population toward the tremendous American presence throughout the FRG. I recall standing in the platz in Idar - Oberstein one evening in 1959, and having a young German woman approach us to ask why we didn't go home. Our retort, "Lady, we'd like nothing more". We only wish we could", must have both shocked and disarmed her. Chagrined or confused, she soon left the scene. One wonders how many other answers of this nature would have softened a similarly harsh approach to the "Amis". As the author reveals, the overall problem, aside from the anti-war, anti-NAtO / US, "movements" of the '60s and '70s, appeared to resolve itself, leading to a period general acceptance in the 1980s, where this work ends, on part of both parties. Perhaps the premise of the whole book could be summed up in a rueful comment by
a close friend as we tuned into AFN while sitting in his Stuttgart quarters to see the beginning of the end of an era on the night of 9 November, 1989, "Well, there go the forces. Let's go to Zurich tomorrow."
11 May 2021
great CD
always enjoy Glenn Miller
12 July 2015
The immediate future; a background
As a geography major at Ohio State, the title led me to a "Buy it Now" purchase. Along with Bartholomew maps, it'd make a great companion on European trips. Kaplan's insight into the effects of geography on human history and interaction. Regardless of the fact that it was published 3 years ago, researched and written even earlier, it retains a currency that should last for the foreseeable future. Greece, Germany, the Baltic, Balkans, Russia and the Koreas will not, in spite of wishful thinking, go away soon. For accuracy's sake and understanding,Kaplan's work should be on the shelf of every reporter, author, instructor.