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 own country and Europe.
Charles Williams's magisterial biography offers a welcome reappraisal of this most influential of statesmen. Acclaimed for his remarkable portraits of Charles de Gaulle and Donald Bradman, Charles William's latest biography is his most complete work to date.
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.
