With nearly 1 500 Broadway performances six Tony Awards more than three million albums sold
and five Academy Awards The Sound of Music 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. 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. Now with photographs from the original
edition.
