Dimensions
127 x 197 x 39mm
Konrad Adenauer: one of the truly great leaders of the twentieth century. In an astonishing political career that spanned six decades - including fourteen years as Chancellor of West Germany - he was instrumental in shaping the modern political landscape, both of his country and of Europe.
Charles Williams's magisterial biography offers a welcome reappraisal of this most influential of statesman. Drawing on hitherto untapped sources from the former Soviet Union and German Democratic Republic, and written with warmth, lucidity and telling insight, Adenauer is as much a book about the making of modern Germany as it is about one of the twentieth century's foremost statesmen.
