Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER
‘A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historicalfigure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes thatshaped the postwar world.’ –Daily Telegraph (London)
‘Charts the ironies of Adenauer’s complicated life. This is thestory of a marathon man, but it is narrated at the pace of asprinter and with the elegance of a hurdler.’–The Times(London)
‘Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantlywritten volume which deserves a wider readership than the purelypolitical.’–The Herald (Glasgow)
‘A highly readable, thoroughly reliable, intelligently criticallife-and-times. . . . This portrait does justice to a man who isoften invoked as a prophet of a United States of Europe, but whowas in truth the greatest of German patriots.’–Literary Review(London)
‘Well-researched and admirably written . . . reveals Adenauer theman–with all his authority and strength, his persistence andendurance, and his streak of ruthlessness and politicalcunning.’–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 toa great book.’–Daily Telegraph (London)
Table of Content
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii
PREFACE x
PART ONE: The Kaiser’s Germany
1 COLOGNE: 1876 3
2 ‘GAUDEAMUS IGITUR JUVENES DUM SUMUS’ 15
3 THE END OF YOUTH 31
4 THE LADDER OF AMBITION 45
5 A TIME OF TRAGEDY 60
6 THE MANAGEMENT OF DEFEAT 75
PART TWO: Weimar Germany
1 THE AFTERMATH OF WAR 95
2 LIFE HAS TO GO ON 111
3 THE REPARATIONS CR I S I S 126
4 1923 140
5 COLOGNE I S FREE! 157
6 THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MAYOR 172
7 DUBIOUS MANOEUVRES 186
8 CONFRONTATION 203
PART THREE: Hitler’s Germany
1 DESCENT INTO DARKNESS 215
2 THEY START TO CLOSE IN 229
3 HE NO LONGER MATTERS 241
4 KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE 253
5 A QUIET WAR 266
6 ‘THE WAR I S OVER! ‘ 276
PART FOUR: Adenauer’s Germany
1 SACKED BY THE BRITISH 293
2 ANOTHER POLITICAL BIRTH – ANOTHER PERSONAL DEATH 307
3 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW GERMANY 323
4 THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR 344
5 BUILDING EUROPE – AND FACING THE BEAR 362
6 AT HOME AND AT WORK 380
7 POLITICS IS AN ART – NOT A SCIENCE 392
8 WHERE DOES GERMANY STAND? 410
9 CAN ANYONE BE TRUSTED? 424
10 ENTER THE GENERAL 446
11 KHRUSHCHEV’ S CHALLENGE 465
12 THREATS AND COUNTER-THREATS 486
13 FROM TRIUMPH TO DISMISSAL 503
14 FINALE 524
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 539
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 542
NOTES 546
INDEX 570
About the author
Charles Williams, Lord Williams of El-vel, has enjoyed a distinguished political career, becominga Labour Life Peer in 1985beforebeingelected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in 1989. He is theauthor oftwo brilliantly received biographies, The Last Great Frenchman and Bradman.
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