Reich's Orchestra: The Berlin Philharmonic 1933-1945 by Aster, Misha - 2010-10-31

Hardcover Cloth 272 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 2010. Attractive red boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square ex-library copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Library barcode and checkout record on front endpapers. Library tracking stamp on title page. Tracking strip on back endpapers. An unclipped dust jacket protected by mylar cover is smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Dewey decimal number on dust jacket spine. Not an book club or remainder copy.
For decades the relationship between the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and National Socialist regime has been shrouded in mystery. In 1933, the world-renowned orchestra came under the control of Hitler's Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels; the musicians became civil servants of the Reich and until the end of World War Two, the orchestra served as Germany's flagship… Read More

London: Souvenir Press 2010. hard cover, dust jacket, maroon cloth, m 272pp including index, endnotes, small strip cut from top edge of free front endpaper, otherwise all in excellent condition in excellent dust jacket, no marks or inscriptions. ISBN 9780285638938