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Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst HanfstaenglSnagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here!  List Price: £8.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £7.19 You Save: £1.80 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9780715635285 ISBN: 071563528X Label: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Manufacturer: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: February 23, 2006 Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Release Date: February 23, 2006 Studio: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Average Rating:
 Rating: - Perfectly in tunePeter Conradi's account of the bizarre rise and fall of Hitler's piano player - or maybe we should say 'court jester' - is a riveting and racy read but none the less authoritative for that. Thoroughly researched and up-to-date with the added bonus of direct contacts with the surviving members of the Hanfstaengl family, I read it over a period of a few days and would happily have had another hundred more pages added to its 300 plus. And for people who have had stories of the Nazis 'up-to-here' it's actually more of a human tale, a study of a strange personality - a man whose spent nearly as much time in Britain and America as he did in Germany. So it throws light on a wider world than the narrow Nazi milieu and as I said, it's a tale well-told, which is no less than you would expect from an experienced Sunday Times journalist like Conradi. So many of the recent books covering this period have little new to say or else are a turgid read - this is like a breath of fresh air. If it had included a Chronology, I'd have given it 5 stars: otherwise, it does what it says on the tin!  Try searching the Internet for "Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl" or Ebay for "Hitler's Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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