Part 1 The formation of American policy - personal perspectives and international solutions: George C.Marshall and the Marshall Plan, Forrest Pogue; toward the Marshall Plan - a memoir of policy development in Germany (1945-47), Charles P.Kindleberger; European integration and German reintegration - Marshall Planners and the search for recovery and security in Western Europe, Michael J.Hogan; European integration and the "special relationship" - implementing the Marshall Plan in the Federal Republic, Thomas Schwartz. Part 2 A new political matrix for Europe - institutional responses within Germany and France; German policy responses to the Marshall Plan, Klaus Schwabe; building coalitions - non-governmental German-American linkages, Werner Link; ambiguous partnership - France, the Marshall Plan, and the problem of Germany, Raymond Poidevin. Part 3 Assessing the economic achievement: American aid and West German economic recovery - A macroeconomic perspective, Werner Abelshauser; the Marshall Plan and economic key sectors - a microeconomic perspective, Knut Borchardt and Christof Buchheim; preconditions for export-led growth - the Marshall Plan and German foreign trade, Alan Milward.