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BERLIN, Jul 10, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Teenagers in France and Germany will be studying from a historic text this fall -- the first joint French and German history book.
"Histoire/Geschichte: Europe and the World After 1945" hit German bookstores on Monday at a price of about $32, Deutsche Welle reported.
Ten historians, five from each country, worked on the text. While it covers a period when the two countries were mostly in alliance and joined in what became the European Union, France and Germany had different attitudes toward the United States and communism.
The book was suggested in 2003 by participants in a youth conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the friendship treaty signed by Charles De Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
Two more books are being planned. One will cover the period from the Congress of Vienna at the end of the Napoleonic Wars to World War II -- a period when France and Germany went to war three times -- and the other the period from the beginning of human habitation in Europe to the Napoleonic era.
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