Changing Enemies: The Defeat and Regeneration of Germany - Softcover

Annan, Noel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801484901 ISBN 13: 9780801484902

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In January 1941, Noel Annan was assigned to Military Intelligence in Whitehall, where he was to be involved for the next four years, at the center of Britain's secret war planning, in the crucial work of interpreting information supplied by a network of agents throughout occupied Europe. When the war in Europe ended, Annan was seconded to the British Zone in defeated Germany to help rebuild its ruined cities. Annan got to know the new generation of German politicians who were to bring about the economic miracle that led from the ashes of defeat to Germany's renaissance as the most powerful nation in Europe. When the future chancellor Konrad Adenauer was placed under house arrest and banned from taking part in politics, Annan helped to get him released. Annan's riveting account of this pivotal period of European history is both fascinating in itself and of considerable importance to our understanding of Europe today.

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Review:

"Changing Enemies is one of the last accounts we shall have by a witness to some of the high-level decision making during the war and its immediate aftermath. . . . Lord Annan's book valuably points to the contribution to German democracy that was distinctively British."--Michael R. Beschloss, New York Times Book Review

"In this crackling tale, former British intelligence officer Annan offers an insider's view of the military espionage that helped the Allies win the war against Hitler. . . . He vividly describes power struggles among the Allied forces occupying Germany, his work in guiding post-Nazi Germany toward multi-party democracy, and his friendship with Konrad Adenauer."--Publishers Weekly

"A graceful and crystal style like Noel Annan's, all but absent from most contemporary political and historical literature, is enough to awaken an American reader's slumbering literary Anglophilia."--David Mehegan, Boston Globe

"This book is part fascinating memoir and part engaging scholarly analysis."--H-Net Reviews

"One of the best books ever written about military intelligence during World War II."--William Roger Louis, University of Texas

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801484901
• ISBN 13: 9780801484902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 290