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  And the Band Played On: The Titanic Violinist and the Glovemaker - A True Story of Love, Loss and Betrayal (Paperback) By (author) Christopher Ward

  

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  Short Description for And the Band Played OnAND THE BAND PLAYED ON brings to life the trauma of the Titanic through the true story of one family.
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  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • Published: 26 May 2011
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Miscellaneous Items | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Maritime History | Ships & Shipping
  • ISBN 13: 9781444707953 ISBN 10: 1444707957
  • Sales rank: 27,136

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• On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were still playing when the ship went down. The violinist, 21 year-old Jock Hume, knew that his fiancee, Mary, was expecting their first child, the author's mother. One hundred years later, Christopher Ward reveals a dramatic story of love, loss and betrayal, and the catastrophic impact of Jock's death on two very different Scottish families. He paints a vivid portrait of an age in which class determined the way you lived - and died. An outstanding piece of historical detective work, AND THE BAND PLAYED ON is also a moving account of how the author's quest to learn more about his grandfather revealed the shocking truth about a family he thought he knew, a truth that had been hidden for nearly a hundred years.