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Konrad Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany
Konrad Adenauer The Father of the New Germany Author:Charles Williams, Charles Williams, Brown Little, Company 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... more » 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 manwith 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)« less