Anne Frank

Revised and expanded edition includes five missing pages from Anne Frank's diary, an enlarged picture section and additions to the concluding chapters, adding up to over 100 pages of new material. Potential for massive serial in national publicationsAnne Frank: The Biography originally sold over 6,000 hardbacks and trade paperbacks, and over 17,000 in paperback. This new edition promises to capture a whole new audience of scholars and general readers alikeBuilds on the success of the critically-acclaimed original to become the definitive story of Anne Frank, shedding light on the betrayal and the family's attempts to emigrate to the USMelissa Müller is an Austrian-born journalist and author, whose other books include A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, written with Reinhard Piechocki, and Until the Final Hour, which describes Traudl Junge's life and her experiences as Hitler's last private secretary, and was a major source for the movie Downfall. Her original edition of Anne Frank: The Biography, informed the Emmy Award-winning adaptation, Anne Frank.Tracing Anne Frank's life from an early childhood in an assimilated family to her adolescence in German-occupied Amsterdam, Melissa Müller's biography, originally published in 1998, follows her life right up until her desperate end in Bergen Belsen. This updated edition includes the five missing pages from Anne Frank's diary, a number of new photographs, and brings to light many fascinating facts surrounding the Franks. As well as an epilogue from Miep Gies, who hid them for two years, it features new theories surrounding their betrayal, revelations about the pressure put on their helpers by the Nazi party and the startling discovery that the family applied for visas to the US. This authoritative account of Anne Frank's short but extraordinary life has been meticulously revised over seven years.With much new material on the betrayal of the Frank family and their attempts to leave for the US, this updated edition is now the definitive biography of Anne FrankDefinitiveSensitive, serious and scrupulousA well-written account, with a strong narrative and a seamless meshing of biographical and historical detailThe style of the book builds the tension and colours in an almost cinematic way, in particular evoking Anne's physical presence, from girlish selfishness through the frustrations of puberty to a deepening spirituality, so the sense of what was list with this one life is acute ... Required reading for anyone who insists on believing that, in the face of facts, life could indeed be beautifulValuable ... Places the Frank story on a broader historical canvas ... Charting anti-Semitic persecution in Holland and comparing the Franks' experience with that of other Dutch Jews at the time