Volume 36, Number 10 · June 15, 1989
The Rising Star of the German Right
By Gordon A. Craig
Ich war dabei
by Franz Schönhuber
Langen Müller (Munich), 344 pp., DM 14.80 (paper)
Freunde in der Not
by Franz Schönhuber
Langen Müller (Munich), 416 pp., DM36
Macht: Roman eines Freistaats
by Franz Schönhuber
Langen Müller (Munich), 320 pp., DM32
Trotz allem Deutschland
by Franz Schönhuber
Langen Müller (Munich), 264 pp., DM28
When Alan Bullock, the author of what remains the best biography of Adolf Hitler in English, began planning his magisterial life of Ernest Bevin as trade union leader, wartime minister of labor and national service, and postwar foreign secretary, he met his subject's widow for the first time. Mrs. Bevin gave him a searching, but not unfriendly, look and, as if desirous of putting him on the right track from the beginning, said, 'My Ernie warn't no 'itler!'
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