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) | Adenauer by Charles Williams, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters