AND THE Band Played On. . .

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp.[Complete number line 2.So,1st edn,2nd imp.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,cream background with colour photographic montage'd/ illustrated dw/dj,with brown+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of dw/dj's spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing,top rear board's corner minimally creased.Top +fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain red cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,xi-xivpp+1-274pp [paginated] includes author's preface,27 chapters and epilogue,16pp contemporary b/w illus/plates+ photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp82/3 and pp178/9 respectively,b/w facsimile Titanic-related ephemera plates also interspersed throughout the text and the book,a bibliography,and acknowledgements.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/table,and prose extracts.
On the 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.
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