NATO's anxious birth: the prophetic vision of the 1940s
01 January 1991
NATO's anxious birth: the prophetic vision of the 1940s
libdoc March=1992
Author: de Staercke, Andre
Publisher: Hurst 1985, pp.192, Index
Keywords: Europe, US, NATO, Military, Security
This "is the story of the paths to membership of the North
Atlantic
Alliance taken by the 12 founding members. It is the pre-history
of
the Alliance, presented as a collective review of the motives
which
were paramount for each country at the time they joined and of
the
actual process of accession. We are given a rare view from widely
differing viewpoints of the troubles that faced the Europe
continent
after 1945 and of the energy, vision and determination of the
generation of political leaders and diplomats whose task it was
to
confront them..." (publishers text)