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The Piano War: A True Story of Love and Survival in World War II
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This astonishing and moving story brings to life the events of World War II, showing how ordinary people rise to the challenge of extraordinary times.
‘The nail-biting drama into which Bennie and Olda became ensnared during World War II rates as the most thrilling and remarkable love story I have come across in my 50 years as a newspaperman. Its climax in Cairo still moves me to tears.’ – James Clarke, The Star.
August 1939. On her summer break from her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, the exquisitely talented young South African pianist, Olda Mehr, and her parents, leave London to visit relatives in Eastern Europe. A dreamy holiday descends into nightmare when Germany invades Poland, and the Mehrs find themselves, as Jews, caught up in Hitler's Holocaust. For Olda, Gestapo torture and the threat of the gas chamber are relieved by letters from her boyfriend, the artist-musician-doctor, Bennie Hermer, now a captain in the South African army fighting in North Africa. After the Allied disaster at Tobruk, Ben is imprisoned in the dusty, dysentery-ridden POW camp at Benghazi.
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| Author | Graeme Friedman |
|---|---|
| Publisher | davidphilip |
| Place | London |
| Year | 2003 |
| ISBN | 9780864866431 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Comments | Inscribed by Bennie Hermer. |
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