| This book has taken longer to complete than it took to rearm West Germany. During the seemingly eternal process of researching and writing it I have become indebted to the institutions that helped finance my work. I thank Yale University for a Morse Faculty Fellowship; the American Philosophical Society for a Penrose Fund grant; the German Academic Exchange Service for a summer study grant to the Federal Republic; Montana State University for a Research-Creativity grant; and the German Marshall Fund of the United States for a Research Fellowship in 199091. I am grateful to both Yale and Montana State Universities for allowing me generous leaves of absence to pursue this project. |
| During the initial phase of my research, I enjoyed the hospitality and assistance of the Militrgeschichtliches Forschungsamt in Freiburg. The scholars and staff at that institution are models of professional competence, but, to their credit, they also take time out for tea or a beer. My headquarters in Bonn was the Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Auswrtige Politik, whose archive and library are a treasure trove to students of modern German foreign policy. My thanks to Professor Dr. Karl Kaiser for the invitation to work there. I owe thanks as well to the (now long departed) denizens of the Burschenschaft Alemannia in Bonn, who allowed me to live in their splendid house on the Rhine without making me duel. |
| In addition to the resources of the Forschungsamt and the Gesellschaft, I drew on the relevant holdings of the following archives and libraries, whose staffs I thank: Archiv fr Christlich-Demokratische Politick, St. Augustine; Bundesarchiv-Militrarchiv, Freiburg; Universittsbibliothek Freiburg; Bundesarchiv, Koblenz; Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bonn; Friedrich Naumann Stiftung/Heuss Akademie, Gummersbach; Konrad Adenauer Haus, Rhndorf; Parlamentsarchiv, Bonn; Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, Bonn; Institut fr Zeitgeschichte, Munich; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich; Public Records Office, London; British Library, London; Bibliothque Nationale, Paris; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Doe Library, University of California, Berkeley; Greene Library, Stanford University, Hoover Institution, Stanford; Renne Library, Montana State University, Sterling Library, Yale University; Suzzalo Library, University of Washington; Widener Library, Harvard University. |
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