List of Illustrations.

Preface.

THE KAISER'S GERMANY.

Cologne: 1876.

'Gaudeamus Igitur Juvenes Dum Sumus'.

The End of Youth.

The Ladder of Ambition.

A Time of Tragedy.

The Management of Defeat.

WEIMAR GERMANY.

The Aftermath of War.

Life Has to Go On.

The Reparations Crisis.

1923.

Cologne Is Free!

The Private and Public Mayor.

Dubious Manoeuvres.

Confrontation.

HITLER'S GERMANY.

Decent Into Darkness.

They Start to Close In.

He No Longer Matters.

Keeping Out of Trouble.

A Quiet War.

'The War Is Over!'

ADENAUER'S GERMANY.

Sacked by the British.

Another Political Birth -
Another Personal Death.

The Beginnings of the New Germany.

The Federal Chancellor.

Building Europe -
And Facing the Bear.

At Home and at Work.

Politics Is an Art -
Not a Science.

Where Does Germany Stand?

Can Anyone Be Trusted?

Enter the General.

Khrushchev's Challenge.

Threats and Counter-Threats.

From Triumph to Dismissal.

Finale.

Acknowledgements.

Select Bibliography.

Notes.

Index.