Adenauer

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 Adenauers 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 man--with all his authority and strength, his persistence and endurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and political cunning.' --The Independent (London) THELASTGREATFRENCHMAN ' 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)