Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany

Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER"A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." ??Daily Telegraph (London)"Charts the ironies of Adenauer?s complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, [...]
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Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER"A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." ??Daily Telegraph (London)"Charts the ironies of Adenauer?s complicated life. This is the story of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of a sprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler."??The Times (London)"Lucid and engaging. This is a well?researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political."??The Herald (Glasgow)"A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently critical life?and?times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who is often invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe, but who was in truth the greatest of German patriots."??Literary Review (London)"Well?researched and admirably written . . . reveals Adenauer the man??with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning."??The Independent (London) THE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN"Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle."??The New York Times Book Review"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book."??Daily Telegraph (London)