Angela Merkel: Europe's most influential leader

A childhood under communism

In the shadow of the Berlin Wall

Angela in Leipzig

The unbearable boredom of being: a squatter in Berlin

Angela becomes Merkel

Kohl's girl

the politics of patricide: how Merkel became party leader

Waiting game: the patient party leader

Merkel loses and becomes chancellor

The making of the Queen of Europe

Potato soup, the Pope and re-election

The Euro-crisis and Afghanistan

From the jaws of defeat and beyond

Ukraine, another Greek tragedy and the refugee crisis

Epilogue: Mother Courage or Merkiavelli?