The pianist : the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 /

The pianist : the extraordinary story of one man's survival in Warsaw, 1939-45 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Szpilman, Władysław, author.
Uniform title:	Śmierć miasta. English
Edition:	Second paperback edition.
Imprint:	New York : Picador, 2019.
Description:	222 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Szpilman, Władysław. Szpilman, Władysław. Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Personal narratives. Jewish musicians -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography. Pianists -- Poland -- Warsaw -- Biography. Jews. Jewish musicians. Pianists. Warsaw (Poland) -- Biography. Poland. Poland -- Warsaw. Personal Narrative Biography Biographies. Personal narratives. Personal narratives. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13153906

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Other authors / contributors:	Hosenfeld, Wilm. Szpilman, Andrzej, writer of foreword. Biermann, Wolf, 1936- writer of supplementary textual content. Bell, Anthea, translator.
ISBN:	1250249546 9781250249548
Summary:	A Jewish pianist's real-life account of survival in World War II Warsaw.

Table of Contents:

Foreword to the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Edition
The Hour of the Children and the Mad
War
The First Germans
My Father Bows to the Germans
Are You Jews?
Dancing in Chlodna Street
A Fine Gesture by Mrs K
An Anthill Under Threat
The Umschlagplatz
A Chance of Life
'Marksmen Arise!'
Majorek
Trouble and Strife Next Door
Szalas' Betrayal
In a Burning Building
Death of a City
Life for Liquor
Nocturne in C sharp Minor
Postscript
Extracts from the Diary of Captain Wilm Hosenfeld
Epilogue: A Bridge Between Wladyslaw Szpilman and Wilm Hosenfeld