Konrad 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)