Download or read book Pioneers of European Integration and Peace, 1945-1963 written by Sherrill Brown Wells and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the devastation of the Second World War, Western European leaders worked together to achieve the lasting peace that had eluded 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 these critical early years.