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Adenauer: The Father of the New Germany
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ISBN10: 0471407372
ISBN13: 9780471407379
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Jan 25 2001
Pages: 608
Weight: 2.31
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780471407379
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Jan 25 2001
Pages: 608
Weight: 2.31
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
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)
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)
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