Baring, Arnulf: Machtwechsel, die Ära Brandt-Scheel (1983, 1998). The standard history of the period. Long (nearly a thousand pages), but boldly and incisively written. The chapters on the Guillaume affair and Brandt's resignation are relatively brief and particularly fine.
Harpprecht, Klaus: Im Kanzleramt: Tagebuch derjahre mit Willy Brandt (2000). Harpprecht is a well-known publisher who joined Brandt's office at the beginning of 1973 as a speech-writer and adviser. He was also a personal friend of Brandt's, and provided him with a holiday house in the South of France which gave him some respite from the political storms of that difficult year. His diary of life in the Palais Schaumburg is sharp, worldly and observant - and a salutary corrective to the schematic oversimplification of my picture.
Rehlinger, Ludwig A.: Freikauf (1991). For the rate of ransom per prisoner charged by the DDR.
Whitney, Craig R.: Advocatus Diaboli: Wolfgang Vogel-Anwalt zwischen Ost und West (1993). For the complete figures of the trade in prisoners and family reunions, as given in Vogel's own files.
Brandt's own writings
Brandt, Willy: Erinnerungen (1989). The 1994 edition also contains the Notizen zum Fall G, the notes about the Guillaume affair that he made around the time of his resignation. There is an English edition, My Life in Politics (1992), but it doesn't include the Notizen.
A complete collection of Brandt's works is in the course of publication (the Berliner Ausgabe). The volume relating to the domestic and social policy of his government is Volume 7, Mehr Demokratie wagen: Innen- und Gesellschqftspolitik 1966-1974 (2001). The volume relating to his government's foreign policy (including relations with East Germany) is Volume 6, Ein Volk derguten Nachbarn, Außen- und Deutschlandpolitik 1966—1974. This has not yet appeared, however, and for his speeches and other statements on foreign policy I have used:
Brandt, Willy: Reden und Interviews 1968-1969 (German government publication, undated), and Bundeskanzler Brandt: Reden und Interviews (1971).
Brandt, Willy: Lachen hilft - Politische Witze (2001). A collection of jokes, mostly but not exclusively political, assembled by Brandt over the course of the years. It was completed and published after his death by his widow, Brigitte Seebacher-Brandt. This is the source of most of Brandt's jokes in the play.
Biographies of Brandt
Merseburger, Peter: Willy Brandt 1913-1992, Visionarund Realist (2002). The most recent. Well-written and comprehensive, unashamedly partisan, with a foreword that gives a particularly brilliant overview of Brandt's achievements.
Koch, Peter: Willy Brandt (1998). Colourful, journalistic, gossipy, and highly readable.
Marshall, Barbara: Willy Brandt, a Political Biography. In English. Short but to the point.
Schöllgen, Gregor: Willy Brandt - die Biographie (2001). Compact and serviceable.
Guillaume
Guillaume, Günter: Die Aussage. The original edition, described as cprotokolliert von Günter Karau' was published by the East German military publishing-house in 1988 for the benefit of the security organs and the National People's Army, marked Tor official use only'. In 1990 it was reissued in West Germany in a revised form, as Die Aussage - wie es wirklich war ('The Testimony - how it really was'; the implication is presumably that the book is a substitute for the testimony which Guillaume refused to give at his trial). For the reserve with which this source should be treated see above. It should really be read in conjunction with: