Books with author Maria Augusta. Trapp

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.

Lippincott Hardcover w/d.j. - blk/white photographs & blk/white drawings by Trapp Family. 309 pages - Copyright 1949, Eighteenth Printing, June 1966. - The story begins in Austria after the first World War, in which the Baron distinguished himself as a submarine commander. A widower, he had five daughters, two sons and no one to look after them; and from a neighboring convent he obtained as governess a young student Maria. Included are photos of the family, the Baron and Maria.