"The Pianist" 
by Wladyslaw Szpilman
A Memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist and composer who gives a gripping first-hand account of the horror of what happened to him, his family, and friends and the destruction of the city of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation from 1939 to 1945--and how he managed to survive those years to play the music he loved once again.
