remarkable analysis, foullée and documented, the causes of the end of the Belgian nation.

The author, a professor at Oxford, a very British look and structured on the end of the Belgian nation, that is between 1944 and 1947 when "allies" in search of a bridgehead for rebuild the devastated Europe, have thrown their sights on Belgium territory and politically unstable hinge.
For Belgian, this is an avatar in the long debate that will pit Paul-Henri Spaak, Socialist International francophonissme, King Leopold III, champion of the independence and the neutrality of Belgium selected by the Government in 1937 Van Zeeland , facing the rise of totalitarianism and Soviet Nazi, and procrastination Franco-British democracies.
The current economic crisis is a Belgium helpless, socially ossified, and when nationalism takes refuge in areas or in cities, even in the absence of a credible expression at the level of the country.
The book by Professor Conway is an essential contribution to the understanding of what "political Gordian knot" Belgian, local version of a general problem in Europe, it is fine to have resolved, if possible peacefully. This is the first purpose of the European Union The Sorrows of Belgium: Liberation and Political Reconstruction, 1944-1947