The Pianist,9780786224203

The Pianist

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Edition: Large
ISBN13: 9780786224203
ISBN10: 0786224207
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Thorndike Pr
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Summary

A well-balanced mix of Nonfiction, General Fiction, Romance and Mystery in the lightweight softcover format preferred by many readers. Selections are a blend of international authors, chosen for the broadest appeal. There are also some carefully selected backlist titles by proven favorite authors.

On September 23, 1939, a young Warsaw pianist played Chopin's Nocturne in C sharp minor live on the radio. Later that day, a German bomb destroyed the station and Polish radio went off the air. The horrors of occupation would kill most of Wladyslaw Szpilman's friends and all of his family. But, incredibly, his life was saved by a Wehrmacht officer who heard him play the same nocturne among the rubble. This gripping memoir includes excerpts from the diary of Wilm Hosenfeld, the Wehrmacht officer who had the courage to stand against evil.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1(3)
Andrzej Szpilman
The Hour of the Children and the Mad
4(13)
War
17(13)
The First Germans
30(10)
My Father Bows to the Germans
40(10)
Are You Jews?
50(12)
Dancing in Chlodna Street
62(16)
A Fine Gesture by Mrs K
78(13)
An Anthill Under Threat
91(14)
The Umschlagplatz
105(11)
A Chance of Life
116(9)
`Marksmen Arise!'
125(11)
Majorek
136(8)
Trouble and Strife Next Door
144(9)
Szalas' Betrayal
153(11)
In a Burning Building
164(10)
Death of a City
174(8)
Life for Liquor
182(11)
Nocturne in C sharp minor
193(33)
Postscript
205(2)
Extracts from the Diary of Captain
207(19)
Wilm Hosenfeld
Epilogue: A Bridge Between Wladyslaw Szpilman and Wilm Hosenfeld 226
Wolf Biermann

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