In this book, Röttgen, a veteran German parliamentarian and one of the Christian Democratic Union’s leading foreign-policy thinkers, previews what lies ahead for the new government.

Rainsford’s writing—on the war, on the Kremlin’s indomitable opponents, on the contrasts between Russia’s harsh realities and the warmth of its people—is vivid and compelling.

THE alternatives for war are at least four in number -- Arbitration, the World Court, Conciliation ... "France must not yield to German threats the first time the German Foreign Minister presides over ...