August 2003    Each month a different member of our distinguished panel of book reviewers recommends the best books discussed in Foreign Affairs in the past year. This month, Harvard University historian Stanley Hoffmann gives his picks for the best books on Western Europe.

Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.
John Lukacs
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002; $25.95
Read November/December 2002 review

A Moral Reckoning. The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and the Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
New York: Knopf, 2002; $25.00
Read January/February 2003 review

Paris Capital of the World
Patrice Higonnet, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002
Read March/April 2003 review

Captives: Britain, Empire, and the World, 1600-1800
Linda Colley
New York: Pantheon Books, 2003; $27.50
Read January/February 2003 review

Wie Weltgeschichte gemacht wird: Frankreich und die Deutsche Einheit
Tilo Schabert
Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2002
Read March/April 2003 review

The Year in Books Index

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