Konrad Adenauer – The Father of the New Germany
The Father of the New Germany
Samenvatting
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)
Specificaties
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<p>PREFACE x</p>
<p>PART ONE: The Kaiser s Germany</p>
<p>1 COLOGNE: 1876 3</p>
<p>2 GAUDEAMUS IGITUR JUVENES DUM SUMUS 15</p>
<p>3 THE END OF YOUTH 31</p>
<p>4 THE LADDER OF AMBITION 45</p>
<p>5 A TIME OF TRAGEDY 60</p>
<p>6 THE MANAGEMENT OF DEFEAT 75</p>
<p>PART TWO: Weimar Germany</p>
<p>1 THE AFTERMATH OF WAR 95</p>
<p>2 LIFE HAS TO GO ON 111</p>
<p>3 THE REPARATIONS CR I S I S 126</p>
<p>4 1923 140</p>
<p>5 COLOGNE I S FREE! 157</p>
<p>6 THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC MAYOR 172</p>
<p>7 DUBIOUS MANOEUVRES 186</p>
<p>8 CONFRONTATION 203</p>
<p>PART THREE: Hitler s Germany</p>
<p>1 DESCENT INTO DARKNESS 215</p>
<p>2 THEY START TO CLOSE IN 229</p>
<p>3 HE NO LONGER MATTERS 241</p>
<p>4 KEEPING OUT OF TROUBLE 253</p>
<p>5 A QUIET WAR 266</p>
<p>6 THE WAR I S OVER! 276</p>
<p>PART FOUR: Adenauer s Germany</p>
<p>1 SACKED BY THE BRITISH 293</p>
<p>2 ANOTHER POLITICAL BIRTH ANOTHER PERSONAL DEATH 307</p>
<p>3 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW GERMANY 323</p>
<p>4 THE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR 344</p>
<p>5 BUILDING EUROPE AND FACING THE BEAR 362</p>
<p>6 AT HOME AND AT WORK 380</p>
<p>7 POLITICS IS AN ART NOT A SCIENCE 392</p>
<p>8 WHERE DOES GERMANY STAND? 410</p>
<p>9 CAN ANYONE BE TRUSTED? 424</p>
<p>10 ENTER THE GENERAL 446</p>
<p>11 KHRUSHCHEV S CHALLENGE 465</p>
<p>12 THREATS AND COUNTER–THREATS 486</p>
<p>13 FROM TRIUMPH TO DISMISSAL 503</p>
<p>14 FINALE 524</p>
<p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 539</p>
<p>SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 542</p>
<p>NOTES 546</p>
<p>INDEX 570</p>