Book Reviews: Ian Ona Johnson: Faustian Bargain. The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

conflation of often very dissimilar indications. Thus, the ‘New Look’, Sartre’s Les jeux sont faits and ‘plans for European economic and military integration’ (Adamthwaite means Western Europe) are run together in a confused fashion. Again, as he points out resistance and liberation could generate ‘dreams of renewal’ (p. 56), but the same was the case with ideas of collaboration in a German-directed New Order. In his subsequent praise, Adamthwaite is able to underplay the problems of the Fourth Republic and not mention Poujadism. ‘How is the empire?’ asked George V on his deathbed (p. 16). Well others favour different ending comments.