Bitburg and Beyond: Encounters in American, German, and Jewish History

734 pp. "Forty years after the end of World War II, President Ronald Reagan's visit to the German military cemetery at Bitburg aroused the passion and ire of the American people. Not since the turbulent years of the Vietnam War had the United States government confronted such a public clash between politics and morality. Bitburg and Beyond is the complete and definitive record of that unprecedented controversy. Here are the cogently reasoned yet emotionally charged words of the men and women who, by virtue of their elected or appointed positions, found themselves central participants in the unfolding drama."