And The Band Played On
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- Christopher Ward (Écrivain)
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All the Titanic victims were desperately trying to get as far away from the sinking ship as possible for fear of being sucked down with it, but they were unknowingly hastening their deaths.
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J'ai acheté ce livre lors d'un voyage en Irlande en cadeau pour ma soeur mais je n'ai pas pu m'empêcher de vouloir le lire à mon tour !
Ce livre commence fort mais s'estompe au fur et à mesure que l'on en apprend plus sur l'histoire d'une famille écossaise. Elle n'est pas inintéressante mais elle l'est moins que l'histoire du naufrage du Titanic.
Je savais qu'un groupe avait continué à jouer alors même que le bateau coulait mais ce livre m'a permis d'en connaître plus. Ici est dépeint l'héroisme et le courage de ces hommes.
C'est un livre qui s'apprécie et qui vaut le détour, on voit bien les recherches que l'auteur a effectué et qu'il continue de faire pour "complete the picture" de la vie de Jock, brève mais brave.
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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 fiancée, 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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