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 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)