Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has written a memoir dealing with her 16-years leading one of Europe’s biggest powers.

The book runs to 700-pages, is titled “Freiheit” (“Freedom”) and was co-written by Merkel’s longtime assistant and adviser Beate Baumann.

Merkel was the country’s first female chancellor and grew up in communist East Germany

The now 69-year old steered Germany through a succession of crises including the global financial crisis, Europe’s debt and migration crises and the coronavirus pandemic.

The book will be published November 26th.