The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

<p>With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, <em>The Sound of Music, </em>based on the lives of Maria, the baron, and their singing children, is as familiar to most of us as our own family history. But much about the real-life woman and her family was left untold.</p><p>Here, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells in her own beautiful, simple words the extraordinary story of her romance with the baron, their escape from Nazi-occupied Austria, and their life in America.</p><p>Now with photographs from the original edition.</p>