AND THE BAND PLAYED ON: A STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND BETRAYAL
Book ID/图书代码： 06400010B39503
English Summary/英文概要： 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 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 families. He paints a vivid portrait of an age in which class determined the way we 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.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1912年4月14号，泰坦尼克号首航就撞上冰山并沉入到汪洋大海中，死亡人数高达一千五百人，包括大部分乘客和全体船员。 在乘客慌忙逃生之时，为了安抚人心，船上的管弦乐队毅然地在甲板上奏起美妙的乐章。当船缓缓沉入大海时，他们依然奏响手中的乐器。 当时乐团里有一名叫做Jock Hume的 21岁小提琴手。他的知道自己的未婚妻Mary正怀着他们的孩子—也就是作者的妈妈。
一百年后，Christopher Ward道出祖父Jock的突然离世给两个家族带来了灾难性的影响。这是是一个关于爱、失落与背叛的故事。 Christopher生动地描绘画了一个阶级可以影响个人生存方式，甚至是死亡方式的年代。
AND THE BAND PLAYED ON是一部历史侦探作品，同时也是一部感人肺腑的个人探索史。作者在追寻祖父往事的过程中，却发现家族里一个隐藏了将近一百年的秘密。（from XMM）
Awards/获奖情况：本书一经发行，曾连续两周荣登英国《星期日时报》畅销作品排行棒。到目前为止，该书已售出13,000册。电视版权已售英国Channel 4，纪实版话剧正在筹拍中。The book has spent two weeks in the UK Sunday Times bestseller chart for hardback non-fiction since publication and we have now sold over 13,000 copies. TV rights have also been sold and a docu-drama is now in production for Channel 4 in the UK.
About the Author/作者介绍： Christopher Ward是泰坦尼克号管弦乐团最年轻的成员Jock Hume的孙子。他跟祖父一样年轻有为，17岁时就加入英国《纽卡斯尔晚报》。在披头士掀起狂热浪潮之际，沃德以《每日镜报》利物浦特派记者的身份搬到马其塞特郡。 二十几岁时，沃德搬到伦敦，并开始了长达10年之久的《每日镜报》专栏记者生涯。38岁时，他被任命为《每日快报》的总编辑，成为英国报界有史以来最年轻的总编辑。他在42岁时离开《每日快报》，与人合创欧洲第一家广告杂志公司Redwood，同时担任这家公司的董事长。 目前，作者住在苏格兰边界，距离他祖父的出生地敦夫里斯郡只有短短70英哩。
Christopher Ward is the grandson of Jock Hume, at 21 the youngest member of the Titanic’s orchestra. Like his grandfather, Ward was an early starter. He joined the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle-upon-Tyne aged 17, and moved to Merseyside to become the Daily Mirror’s Liverpool correspondent at the height of Beatlemania. In his early twenties, he moved to London, writing a column in the Mirror for more than ten years. At 38 he became Fleet Street’s then youngest editor when he was appointed Editor of the Daily Express. He left, aged 42, to co-found Redwood, Europe’s first customer magazine agency, of which he is Chairman today. He lives in the Scottish Borders, seventy miles from Jock Hume’s birth place in Dumfries.
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