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The Untold Story of Eva Braun: Her Life beyond Hitler Kindle Edition

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This is a condensed version of Eva Braun: Her Life and Times: 1912-1945, which is the most authoritative biography of Eva Braun ever written. The author, who holds doctorates from UC Berkeley and the University of Bonn, began researching the life and times of Eva Braun in 1997, when he became the first American to be appointed to a professorship in law at a German university.
The author's ability to conduct research and to interview witnesses in both English and German enabled him to discover astonishing new facts about Eva Braun, including her personal involvement in anti-Semitic pogroms and the startling revelation that Eva Braun suffered from Mayer Rokitansky Syndrome or "MRKH," the congenital absence of a functioning vagina and uterus.
Written with a popular audience in mind, the present biography omits citations to authority in order to keep the book under 400 pages in length. Those who want a full academic treatment will be pleased to learn that the author's 600-page biography, replete with over 2,000 footnotes, is available on Amazon: Eva Braun: Her Life and Times: 1912-1945.
The author has also published an abridged version of “The Untold Story of Eva Braun” which omits much of the background information on politics and the war. It is now available as "Her 'Kampf': Eva Braun Centenary," published on the 100th anniversary of Eva Braun's birth.

The author's ability to conduct research and to interview witnesses in both English and German enabled him to discover astonishing new facts about Eva Braun, including her personal involvement in anti-Semitic pogroms and the startling revelation that Eva Braun suffered from Mayer Rokitansky Syndrome or "MRKH," the congenital absence of a functioning vagina and uterus.

Written with a popular audience in mind, the present biography omits citations to authority in order to keep the book under 400 pages in length. Those who want a full academic treatment will be pleased to learn that the author's 600-page biography, replete with over 2,000 footnotes, will be published in early 2012.

The author has also published an abridged version of “The Untold Story of Eva Braun” which omits much of the background information on politics and the war. It is now available as "Her 'Kampf': Eva Braun Centenary," published on the 100th anniversary of Eva Braun's birth.

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The author fictionalises elements of the story, but in doing so, based as it is on available evidence, vividly brings to life 1920s and 30s Munich and Berlin, to give a rivetng account and shed a strong but illuminating light on a rather tragic woman, who achieved, in her way, the fame she sought. -Journal Online of the Law Society of Scotland

... impressive, ... scholarly, insightful and important contribution to the curious life of [Braun]. Everything ... has a distinct ring of authenticity.... highly readable ... enables us to form our own opinions ... -International Times of Dominica

The school class photograph, published for the first time inside this book, shows Eva Braun at the back right. -Marienhoehe Institute, Simbach am Inn

[The author has] the background for such a book. But I found no documentation such as notes or a bibliography. It reads more like a novel.-Anonymous Reviewer

Author's note: THE ACADEMIC EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY OF EVA BRAUN WILL BE PUBLISHED in early 2012

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As noted by one reviewer, the present version is written like a novel. Nevertheless, it is historically accurate. Indeed, it is the most accurate biography of Eva Braun ever published.

The author will be releasing an academic version of his biography early next year. The academic version, which is written in a less dramatic style, is supported by over 2,000 footnotes citing scores of sources, including personal interviews by the author of people who knew Eva Braun. When published, the academic version will easily be the most authoritative biography of Eva Braun available from any source. This version will also include an explanatory glossary of German-language terms, an extremely extensive bibliography, and short biographical sketches of all of the important people in Eva Braun's life.

The author will also shortly be publishing a "lite" version of The Untold Story of Eva Braun. This version will exclude most of the information on politics and on the war. It is intended for readers who want to concentrate on the essence of Eva Braun's personal life, rather than on the meaning of her life in a broader social and political context. This version will be entitled The Untold Story of Eva Braun: Abridged Edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004Q9TWLE
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 910 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 388 pages

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- #3,926 in Biographies & Memoirs of Women
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Born in San Diego, the author studied comparative literature in San Diego and Uppsala before studying law in Berkeley, Freiburg, and Bonn. He practiced law for a number of years and taught law in San Diego before spending three years as a Fulbright professor in Germany. In 1997 the author was appointed Professor of Common Law and Comparative Jurisprudence at the University of Muenster. He has published widely on legal topics.

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Frederick D. Pepple

Great insight--Americans and British should read

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2011

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The author, an American, has written with historical accuracy--but in a style that places into perspective the background of Braun and Hitler and some of those around them. Americans and British readers will find this interesting as it is written with a distinctively German perspective--something not done in other works.

The references back and forth between these historical figures as their lives unfolded, their families, their childhood, and the later experiences that molded Hitler and those around him, and especially made Eva Braun such and interesting study, work well to tie in the last days and hours in the bunker for those who were there.

The research needed for this is apparent in the result. Despite the attention given to details that might challenge any writer's style, this is a good read that keeps you wanting to turn the page and not set it down.

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Jon A. Beemer

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2022

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This is the first thing I have read about Eva. Very interesting! Rather a pathetic figure in history.
He was her choice!

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2022

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Well written and informative. However, I don't like books that start in one year and the next chapter you are five or 10 years in future and next chapter you have dropped back in time. I would have thought death would be end of book, way was written, no.

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Delp

Well researched and a great read

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2011

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Very few books have been written about Eva Braun. Not because she was especially uninteresting - more because so few people knew her, and knew about her. So all credit to the author for unearthing fresh sources and facts. I enjoyed this book a great deal. It's pretty rich in content, but never dry. And where the author does make suppositions or fill in the narrative with what people could have said or thought, you can tell it's well considered. No hesitation in recommending this book. You'll find it hard to put down, and I'm already looking forward to reading it again sometime.

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Princeofpeoria

great book!!

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022

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Must read for all World War Two buffs. Very well researched. Spans all of Eva and hitters adult lives all the way to the bunker

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Trogolom

Eva Braun’s personality

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2019

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I don’t know how the author came to known of so many details of Eva Braun’s life, but as you read, it’s like watching a movie, and a real goo one at that!

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Lori

It was ok

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014

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It was okay. Not bad, not good. I had already known most of what was written but to hear the writer try to tell in in her voice, was a nice change, even though we will never have any idea of what she actually thought, or had said for sure. It did go back and forth, and talked way too much about her parents lives but there was a lot of good facts that I did learn. I'm glad that I read it, and feel I know more now than before, though I don't think the book flowed well.

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Linda S

A very good read

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2019

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Very Interesting look at Eva Braun...a well known but not much known woman who gave up everything for Hitler. Learned more about her personality from this book than any other.

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Good book. Well written and very interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 1, 2017

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Good book. Well written and very interesting. Lots to learn about a woman who was at the center of the Nazi Party.

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David L.

Somethings old, somethings new.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2020

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I have just finished the abridged version today. A shorter version of the 600+ page book which excludes a lot of the reference material of the larger book. This book is everything that Görtemaker's book 'Eva Braun - Life with Hitler' professed to be but wasn’t. And yet it still fell short in a few areas. I think Lundmark set himself a difficult task in putting together something new about Eva Braun and to do it in a way that was ‘fresh’ and different from all the other books about her and, having literally just put the book down, I can say he made a fair stab at it.

The book is configured to have two time lines running in alternating chapters. One timeline takes us from Evas childhood, adolescence, work in Hoffman’s shop and then through the stages of her life with Hitler up to the closing months of the war. The second timeline covers the last days in the bunker up to the rather strange ending of the book.

In reading this book you have to put aside the fact that some of the conversations and Interactions Lundmark couldn’t possibly know. They are presumably included as a means by which to convey the story or give the reader a feel for the occasion. Once you accept this is storytelling it makes the scene believable and by extension more interesting. Some of the observations are somewhat gratuitous though; ‘Sweat trickled down the cleavage between Eva’s breasts’ being one of the more memorable ones!

Lundmark has repeated stories about Eva that have been covered in all the other books but has included many anecdotes that were new to me. These were woven together in a narrative that also drew on Eva’s home movies and other well documented photos of Hitler, the Berghof,the tea house and the Kehlsteinhaus. It’s fairly successful. I found some of ‘Eva’s’ thoughts about Gretl and Ilse a Little less convincing but then again Lundmark says he had access to many private documents not seen before so...who knows.

Where the book falls down is not necessarily Lundmark’s fault as it is in the proof reading. The book is littered with many basic spelling mistakes and incorrect use of words. There/their, grin/grim, Wenck(general)/Wench. Finally the book finishes. Literally just finishes! There is no summing up of Eva’s legacy (for want of a better word), no conclusions drawn. It just stops with a paragraph that could be, and probably was, included elsewhere in the book. Very strange.

All that said, I enjoyed it and felt better ’informed’ by the end of it. In fact if I hadn’t read anything else about her it was an all round good read. I’m not entirely convinced that her thoughts about life, the war, the Jews etc were as described but they may have been; I don’t think we can ever really know but Lundmark’s Account is believable and certainly better than the book I mentioned at the beginning of this review.

There were no pictures in this abridged version and often the story covered parts of Hitlers life or events in the war that didn’t have much to do with Eva. All the same I’d give it 8/10.

Rachel

Good, but could be better

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2012

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This book is obviously based on considerable research but is presented in a form more akin to a novel than to a standard autobiography. While this makes for an interesting, easy read, in places this style becomes limiting. For instance we find out about Eva's medical condition but there is no opportunity to reflect on how this might have affected Eva as an individual nor her relationship with Hitler. Indeed I think the book does nothing to really illuminate the relationship of Hitler and Eva.Similarly we learn about Eva's suicide attempts but the firstin particular comes out of the blue. Due to the unreflective style of writing we were given no indication beforehand of her state of mind and indeed we are no clearer afterwards. Infact this is probably my greatest criticism of the book, we never really get any sense of Eva's state of mind. I do recommend the boook if you are interested in trying to understand more about the people around Hitler, but do be aware of the book's limitations.

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Colin Duguid

Eva Braun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2013

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Before I read this I didn't know much about Eva. The book itself is sometimes a bit disjointed but overall leaves you with some sympathy for an unhappy and lonely woman.

Pat Hallifax

A rather disjointed book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 19, 2018

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I did not like the way the book was written, with alternate chapters describing Eva Braun’s life and Hitler’s rise to power
and the chapters in between set in April 1945, when Hitler and Eva were preparing to end their lives. In the end, I was so exasperated by this, that I read alternate chapters and at the end went back to the April 1945 chapters, so that I could read the events in their natural order. I found it interesting, however, to learn about Eva Braun’s life and her attraction to Hitler. I always knew they had committed suicide, but I didn’t know the circumstances.

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