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...seven other horns. He managed so well that he has outblown and outclassed most other saxophonists of the past three decades. These 16 selections (1927 to 1963) bring back not only the Hawk but McKinney's Cotton Pickers, the Mound City Blue Blowers, and the bands of Fletcher Henderson, Lionel Hampton and Red Allen as well...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born princeling who, after Louis XIV felt that he was too frail for military service, defected and left France to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' nemesis...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY, by Nicholas Henderson. A polished biography of the Paris-born Savoyard who, after Louis XIV felt he was too frail for military service, defected to become the Habsburgs' top general and Louis' greatest nemesis...
PRINCE EUGEN OF SAVOY by Nicholas Henderson. 324 pages. Praeger...
Poison Plot. Astonishingly enough, Eugen has been little studied, and this thorough biography by Nicholas Henderson, a high-ranking member of Britain's Foreign Office, is the first full-scale account in English of this extraordinary man. His career is only comprehensible in terms of a day when Europe was fragmented into provinces rather than nations, when men were loyal to patrons rather than nations, and when aristocrats felt more kinship to other aristocrats than to their own peasants. Eugen was the product of just such confused loyalties, unimaginable in these tidier times. For all his years serving...