Book review: Karolina J. Helnarska, “Od Europejskiej Wspólnoty Obronnej do Europejskiej Agencji Obrony”, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, Toruń 2009, pp. 245

The publication is another title falling into the subject: Common European Safety and Defense Policy. However, it differs from previous depictions of European Union’s activity in the second pillar. The author’s aim was an analysis of a development of European identity in the field of safety and defense from its origins, that is activities taken and decisions made in the second half of the 1940s. The author has followed through the European safety and defense policy from the moment of shaping its conception (Pleven plan) and setting up the European Defence Community until setting up the European Defence Agency. The treaty instituting the European Defence Community deserves a special attention. It is the first presentation of such important Western Europe’s striving for creating the European armed forces in the literature of the subject.