With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European bloc, the reunification of Germany was a major episode in the history of modern Europe--and one widely held to have been opposed by that country's centuries-old enemy, France. But while it has been previously believed that French President Fran ois Mitterrand played a negative role in events leading up to reunification, Tilo Schabert shows that Mitterrand's main concern was not the potential...