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About the Author
WILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK is Professor of History at Tem- ple University in Philadelphia. He was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1965, and has lived in Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Paris, Brussels, Washington, Boston, and New Haven. He re- ceived his B. A. from Kenyon College in 1986, where he studied history and French literature, and earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1994. He taught at Yale for six years and won a teaching prize there. He has also taught at Wellesley College. Hitchcock is the
author of France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe 1945–1954 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998); and The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945–Present (New York: Doubleday, 2003). With Paul Kennedy, he co-edited From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). He is mar- ried to the historian Elizabeth R. Varon.