| name | The Band that Played On |
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| author | Steve Turner |
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| country | United States |
| language | English languageEnglish |
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| classification | nonfiction |
| genre | History |
| publisher | Thomas Nelson |
| release_date | March 2011 |
| media_type | Print (hardcover), Kindle |
| pages | 246 |
| isbn | ISBN 9781595552198 |
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Turner delves into the lives of these eight men, gathering all available information about where each grew up, their family and professional lives, what they were doing prior to their engagement as musicians aboard the Titanic, and how they came to be on the ill-fated ship.
Turner follows the band members through the hours of the fateful night when the Titanic hit the iceberg that would send it to the ocean floor and shows their heroism when they decided to give their lives by playing music to keep people from panicking as they were being evacuated from the ship.
After the disaster, Turner details some of the legal squabbles that arose over the band members, and paints a picture of the international grief that the members of the band came to symbolize.