The Rise and Fall of the European Defence Community
Subtitle: Anglo-American Relations and the Crisis of European Defence, 1950-55 (Cold War History Series)
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780333913192
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; British & Irish history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Defence strategy, planning & research; International relations; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Technology & Industrial Arts; Politics/International Relations; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Military Science; Defenses; Europe, Western; European cooperation; Great Britain; Military relations; United States
First sentence: Despite reservations about its military effectiveness and the time it could take to create, the principle of a European Army - that which was enshrined in the Pleven Plan of October 1950 - was eventually accepted by the United States, Britain and the rest of NATO as the only way forward on the problem of German rearmament.