After the devastation of the Second World War, Western European leaders worked together to achieve the lasting peacethat hadeluded their predecessors after World War I. Men such as France's Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, and West Germany's Konrad Adenauer laid the foundations for the creation of the European Union.Sherrill Brown Wells's collection of primary documents takes students through the evolution of European integration during thesecritical early years.