LUCAS, JOHN. — Thomas Beecham. An Obsession with Music. (Plus CD).

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2008. 9781843834021. 1st edition. "Drawing upon extensive research, Lucas presents new material on his early years, his complicated private life, his father's catastrophic attempt to buy a large part of Covent Garden..and the orchestras and opera companies that Beecham founded. New light is shed on his visits to Nazi Germany and his view of its leaders, as well as the much misunderstood and previously unchronicled years of the Second World War, which he spent in Australia and America." Pp.xii/388, 34 black & white plates, CD of Beecham rehearsing the RPO in pocket to rear. Black cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.