Hitler's piano player : the rise and fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl, confidant of Hitler, ally of FDR / Peter Conradi
"He was a man who enjoyed the confidences of both the Fuhrer and FDR, a man with the world's most unique perspective on the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. Ernst Hanfstaengl (known to all as Putzi) was haughty court jester, soothing pianist, and savvy foreign press chief...
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| Główni autorzy: | Conradi, Peter |
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| Format: | Książka |
| Język: | English |
| Wydane: | New York, NY : Carroll & Graf, 2004 |
| Wydanie: | 1. Carroll & Graf ed |
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| Dostęp online: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Streszczenie: | "He was a man who enjoyed the confidences of both the Fuhrer and FDR, a man with the world's most unique perspective on the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. Ernst Hanfstaengl (known to all as Putzi) was haughty court jester, soothing pianist, and savvy foreign press chief for Hitler during the Nazi leader's ascendancy and later played a lead role in Roosevelt's top-secret project to use black propaganda against the Third Reich. Filled with revelations about Hitler's personal life and descriptions of American psychological warfare, Hitler's Piano Player tells the story of a man torn apart by the most antagonistic of loyalties." "An urbane Harvard-educated German, Putzi was living in Germany in 1922 when he first heard Adolf Hitler speak in a Munich beer hall |
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| Opis fizyczny: | IX, 352 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 078671283X 9780786712830 |
