This is one title in a series of short, illustrated biographies, telling the stories of those who have shaped our present and our past. They range from Beethoven to Dietrich and from Einstein to Churchill. Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) lived and loved with unconventional passion, enthralling men and women alike....

Marlene Dietrich, shaped by her Prussian bourgeois background and the Berlin of the 1920s, lived with unconventional passion. A cosmopolitan star, she used the power of glamour and conviction as a weapon against Nazi Germany....