A carefully researched account of the fifty women who made up the orchestra. A niece of Mahler's was one, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch MBE another. Friendship, coercion, collaboration, cruelty and... read more
Executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union, a crime of which she was almost certainly innocent. This is a valuable book on 'The American Dreyfus Affair... read more