Long's work stimulates very interesting discussions. His concisely written book provides information about many areas during these post-war years on the Saar, which were so exciting precisely because local, regional, bi-national, and international levels were always closely intertwined.
Rainer Hudemann
GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE LONDON BULLETIN
Long has written a fascinating book about a topic that has long ... Read morebeen neglected in English-speaking historiography. He bases it on an impressively large body of primary sources from archives, newspapers, and posters. His concise study vividly portrays an important chapter of German, French, and European history. HISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
HISTORISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT
[V]aluable. . . provides an up-to-date treatment, in English, of the Saar dispute. Employing a thematic approach to the topic, [Long] relies on both French and German primary sources, and he adjuticates between previous scholarly interpretations of this affair.
JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY
[Long] evoke[s] the reader's interest in this little territory in the southwest of Germany as he describes the complexity of its history. The story of the Saarland between 1944 and 1957 thus contributes to the history of borderlands, French colonialism, German state building, and nationalism, as well as to the history of Europeanization in the wake of World War II.
H-NET GERMAN
Bronson Long's in-depth study of French policy in the Saar between 1944 and 1957 is to be thoroughly welcomed. . . . What Long has achieved . . . is . . . the first systematic and sophisticated study on the Saar question in English, which one can only hope will make the subject accessible to a wider group of scholars interested in instances of foreign rule, Franco-German relations, and postwar European history more broadly.
GERMAN HISTORY
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