Adenauer

Adenauer Synopsis

Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER "e;A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world."e; --Daily Telegraph (London) "e;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."e;--The Times (London) "e;Lucid and engaging.

This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political."e;--The Herald (Glasgow) "e;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."e;--Literary Review (London) "e;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."e;--The Independent (London)

THE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN

"e;Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle."e;--The New York Times Book Review "e;Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book."e;--Daily Telegraph (London)