Volume 18, Number 7 · April 20, 1972

Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik: What's at Stake

By Neal Ascherson
Germany's Ostpolitik
by Lawrence L. Whetten

Oxford University Press, 244 pp., $6.50

Germany in Our Time
by Alfred Grosser

Praeger, 378 pp., $12.50

Britain and West Germany: Changing Societies and the Future of Foreign Policy
edited by Karl Kaiser, edited by Roger Morgan

Oxford University Press, 304 pp., $13.00

The Warsaw Pact: Case Studies in Communist Conflict Resolution
by Robin Alison Remington

MIT Press, 268 pp., $10.00

The Berlin Crisis: 1958-1962
by Jack M. Schick

University of Pennsylvania Press, 286 pp., $9.50

Steinstücken. A Study in Cold War Politics
by H.M. Catudal Jr.

Vantage Press, 165 pp., $4.95

The Bundestag in Bonn does not look like a theater for tragedy. Outside, stout green policemen stand and yawn, lulled by the pulse of diesel barges passing up and down the Rhine. Inside there are highly polished corridors and a promising scent of thick pea soup. But inside this pale building, which used to be a teachers' training college, a European tragedy is being rehearsed.



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