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After two centuries of bitter war, such a thing is quite hard to imagine. When the book was first touted, in 2003, many sceptics predicted that it would never appear. Yet a group of historians soon drafted an outline. Five teachers from each country then wrote the book, apparently with few big arguments. The single bone of contention, it seems, was over the role of America after 1945, which the authors chose to highlight rather than gloss over. The book says that, whereas Germans tended to see America as a protector and supporter of western Europe, the French often saw it as the new “imperialistic power”.