Volume 48, Number 3 · February 22, 2001
Could the French Have Won?
By Tony Judt
Strange Victory: Hitler's Conquest of France
by Ernest R. May
Hill and Wang, 594 pp., $30.00
Europeans today live at peace with one another. They even like each other. In EU-sponsored 'Eurobarometer' polls taken over the past decade, it is striking how far mutual suspi-cion has been diluted by closer acquaintance. There are exceptions of course: most of the small countries of Central and Eastern Europe retain some wariness of their immediate neighbors (thanks in part to forty years of enforced 'fraternalism'); Italians esteem other Europeans but mistrust their fellow citizens (as do Greeks); the English popular press is alternately suspicious or contemptuous of the French, a sentiment warmly reciprocated. And then there are the Balkans. But by and large Europeans get on well together—the French and the Germans better than most.
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