I dedicate this book with all my love to my wife Adelheid and the nearly 60 years we have lived together, to our three daughters, their husbands, and our nine grandchildren, who have given me so much love, and vivid memories of the pleasures, and sometimes anxiety, watching them grow up.
My sincere thanks go to Frau Beate Mrugalla who managed a professor and assisted an emeritus with competence and friendship, to Neal Deane who indefatigably combed through my English and who offered me so much of his time discussing Liverpool and Dortmund, and post-war Germany, to Erhard Reckwitz and our cooperation and friendship over many decades, and the way we turned the English Department away from Poets’ Corner, at least for a brief period, to Geoffrey Davis (†) and Ulrich Broich (†) who read and criticized and encouraged, and to the library teams at the universities of Duisburg-Essen, Bochum and Münster.