The Lost Life of Eva Braun - Couverture souple

Lambert, Angela

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099455064 ISBN 13 : 9780099455066

Editeur : Arrow, 2007

Synopsis

The Lost Life of Eva Braun How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives? Was her appeal sexual, domestic, political - or did he really love her? Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of life at the Berghof, this title offers the biography of Eva Braun. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Eva Braun is one of history's most famous nonentities. Yet 58 years after her death her name is still instantly recognisable.

After leaving convent school at the age of seventeen, she became Hitler's mistress before she was 20. How did unsophisticated little Fräulein Braun, 23 years his junior, hold the most powerful man in Europe in an exclusive sexual relationship that lasted from 1932 until their joint suicide? This authoritative biography, explores how, living at the cold heart of the Nazi leadership, she could have been genuinely ignorant of the atrocities of the Third Reich.

Her private diary and photograph albums show that her life with Hitler caused her emotional torture. His chauffeur called her 'the unhappiest woman in Germany.' The Führer humiliated her in public while the top Nazis' wives, living in his privileged enclave on a Bavarian mountainside, despised her. Yet Eva loved the Führer.

Angela Lambert reveals a woman the world never knew until the last 24 hours of her life. In the small hours of 29 April 1945, as Allied troops raced to capture Berlin and the bunker below the Reichskanzlei where the defeated Nazi leaders were hiding, Eva Braun finally achieved her life's ambition by becoming Hitler's wife. Next day they both swallowed cyanide and died instantly. She was young, healthy, and 33 years old.

'Lambert combines her knowledge of culture...with her novelist's sensibility to drive to the heart of this dark and unpalatable puzzle' the Guardian

'Angela Lambert sheds new light on an extraordinary relationship' Good Book Guide

'A highly readable account ... [it] admirably fulfils its brief of rescuing its subject both from Hitler's shadow and the charges of hostile witnesses' Daily Mail

'Lambert has written an interesting book about her [Eva] and her still horribly absorbing period' the Independent on Sunday

'Lively and readable biography' Sunday Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

How did a 19 year-old, middle-class, Catholic girl from Munich become Hitler's mistress and what kept him faithful until the end of their lives? Was her appeal sexual, domestic, political -- or did he really love her?

This biography of Eva Braun is the first in English for 40 years. Angela Lambert has dug deep into Eva's background and brought into sharp focus a fascinating and unexpected relationship, hitherto neglected by male historians.

There are more than 700 biographies of Hitler, yet this is the first thorough study of Eva Braun, his secret mistress. Using never before seen family papers and interviews with her surviving cousin, this book will cause a considerable stir.

Illustrated throughout with little-known black and white photographs of life at the Berghof, it sheds new light on the man, the woman and the past.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Arrow
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0099455064
• ISBN 13: 9780099455066
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 656