The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Władysław Szpilman

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

Władysław Szpilman with Anthea Bell, Wilm Hosenfeld

240 pages hardcover 1946

68 editions

nonfiction history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
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The last live broadcast on Polish Radio, on September 23, 1939, was Chopin's Nocturne in C# Minor, played by a young pianist named Wladyslaw Szpilman, until his playing was interrupted by German shelling. It was the same piece and the same pianist...

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