MILITARY MUSIC & BANDSMEN OF ADOLF HITLER’S THIRD REICH 1933-1945

After six years of in-depth research, Brian Matthews has produced an amazingly detailed reference book documenting the full illustrious history of German military music from its creation in Turkey in the Middle Ages up to the modern Musikkorps of the Bundeswehr in the year 2002.In an exciting, photo-led, 100,000-word book focusing on the years of the Third Reich, Brian has painstakingly researched this overlooked area of German military history, resulting in a 20 chapter work that will appeal both to the military music/brass band enthusiast and Third Reich collector/historian.Early chapters detail the specialist training of all military musicians in the Wehrmacht and Waffen SS., examine the military lives of these musical soldiers, document their musical instrument and illustrate their uniforms and personal effects.Other in-depth chapters feature the life of a famous SS-Musikmeister, Chronicle the famous military music composers, trace the Lili Marleen story and look at life on the German Home Front, with its fledgling network radio, (including the world-famous Wunschkonzert Fur die Wehrmacht Series), and recording industry before reaching the dying days of the Reich and the fate of many of these superb military musicians.The work comes up-to-date with the Old Comrades story and the post-war musical activities of East Germany’s National Volksarmee and the modern military bands and musicians of a reunified Germany in the new millennium.

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Product Code:	6331
Author:	Brian Matthews
ISBN:	0 9542812 0 9
Format:	320pp, 1000+ photographs
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Our Price:	£55.00