Books

The Life Story of the Legendary Family Who Inspired The Sound of Music by William Anderson with photography by David Wade. Full of vintage and contemporary color photographs, this is the most extensive profile of the von Trapp Family written to date. The combination of an award-winning historian and an award-winning photographer turns the already compelling history of America's famous von Trapp family into a riveting tale.

A memoir written by Georg von Trapp and originally published in Salzburg in 1935. Thanks to "The Sound of Music", the story of the Trapp family's escape from the Nazis in 1938 is the stuff of legend. However, little is known in this country about the family's aristocratic patriarch: his role as a highly decorated commander of World War I submarines, and his heroism on the high seas. Elizabeth Campbell, Georg's granddaughter, has painstakingly translated that story from German to English. The result is an absorbing tale of military life in the arcane world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Maria von Trapp, born in 1914, third child of Agathe Whitehead von Trapp and Captain von Trapp published her first book in the Fall of 2008. This book is a collection of old Austrian folk tunes that Maria has translated into English, alongside original artwork, photographs, and stories from Maria's childhood, life as a Trapp Family Singer, and her mission work.

Maria was inspired to translate these songs because she wants people to SING!