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<p>LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii</p> <p>PREFACE x</p> <p><b>PART ONE: The Kaiser’s Germany</b></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><b>PART TWO: Weimar Germany</b></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><b>PART THREE: Hitler’s Germany</b></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><b>PART FOUR: Adenauer’s Germany</b></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>

Charles Williams, Lord Williams of El-vel, has enjoyed a distinguished political career,becomingaLabour Life Peer in 1985beforebeingelected Deputy Leader of the Opposition in 1989. He is theauthor oftwo brilliantly received biographies, The Last Great Frenchman and Bradman.

Critical Acclaim for ADENAUER <p>"A gripping narrative . . . brings to life an intriguing historical figure . . . an enthralling perspective on the processes that shaped the postwar world." ––Daily Telegraph (London)</p> <p>"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)</p> <p>"Lucid and engaging. This is a well-researched and elegantly written volume which deserves a wider readership than the purely political."––The Herald (Glasgow)</p> <p>"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)</p> <p>"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)</p> <p>THE LAST GREAT FRENCHMAN</p> <p>"Knowledgeable, lucid . . . the best English biography of de Gaulle."––The New York Times Book Review</p> <p>"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book."––Daily Telegraph (London)</p>

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