2005 Scholar's Bookshelf Reprint Edition. The still indispensable, most fully documented study of the pivotal role of France in the world politics of the American Revolution, tracing France's new world situation as the Revolution neared, American diplomatic efforts to ally with an enemy of Britain, the role of such individuals as Silas Deane, Benjamin Franklin, Lafayette, and Rochambeau, and the decisive French military intervention at the end of the war. Reprint of the original 1911 Houghton Mifflin publication. 2005: 544 pages, softcover. (Scholar's Bookshelf)