The Lost Life of Eva Braun
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00LRXJBYA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 329 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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More than I knew before I read the book I was drawn to this book by a friend who was born in Germany and who was reading the book. She had been to many of the places mentioned in Eva Braun's biography. I must agree with a couple of other reviewers who find information about the author's mother unimportant in many areas of the book, and the lack of research in areas that could have been accessed with the help of a translator.However, I've always been curious about Eva Braun and until this book, I had never read anything comprehensive about her. I found it interesting to learn ho. The Boring Life of Eva Braun Crime Aficionado I'm sure that Eva Braun was a somewhat interesting person but you would never know it by reading Angela Lambert's book. First of all the half pages of footnotes were incredible distracting and did not add value to the book at all. Second, I wanted to read about Eva Braun not Angela Lambert's mother. Also, i didn't think there needed to be a whole chapter on the horror of German fairy tales. My mother lived in Germany when she was young and the fairy tales did not encourage her to become the lifetime partner of a Nazi dictator. I couldn't . "Not Without Flaws But Not Without Some Value" according to Carolyn Hasenfratz. This is not a book I would have picked out for myself because the Nazi era is not a part of history that I like to think a lot about. However, the book was lent to me and I had the flu so since I was already feeling bad I decided it was a good time to read it. Now that I read it I'm glad I did - it was very thought provoking. What it attempts to answer are two very difficult questions - was there anything in particular about German culture in the first half of the 20th century that made them more susceptible than others to becoming enthra
And her love for Hitler---as she proved in the end---was beyond question." Eva loved the Führer, not for his power, nor because, thanks to him, she lived in luxury. She left her convent school at the age of seventeen and met Hitler a few months later. They were never seen in public together and she never saw him alone except in the bedroom, yet their long relationship was a sort of marriage. She was very shy, modest. His material gifts were nothing compared with the one thing she really wanted: his child. Next day they both swallowed cyanide and died instantly. Angela Lambert reveals a woman the world never knew until the last twenty-four hours of her life. Yet Albert Speer said: "She has been much maligned. She became his m
. No one in Hitler's retinue ever understood their mutual attraction, though perhaps Albert Speer was closest when he said that for Hitler Braun was "incredibly undemanding"; as for Braun's infatuation, Lambert herself remains bemused, but her behind-the-scenes tale of an extraordinary man in love with a most ordinary woman is a revelation. 32 pages of b&w photos. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Lambert (whose novel, A Rather English Marriage was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) cites the remarkable fact that while Hitler has over 700 biographies, his long-time mistress and wife (for 36 hours), Eva Braun, enjoys just two in English—the first long out of print and now this one. Since her death at age 33 in the bunker alongside her beloved Adolf, Braun has been dismissed as a vivacious but flighty and not overly intelligent companion with a perverse adoration of the fuehrer. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed