Prague Winter : : a Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
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Setting out -- Pt. 1: Before March 15, 1939. An unwelcome guest ; Tales of Bohemia ; The competition ; The linden tree ; A favorable impression ; Out from behind the mountains ; "We must go on being cowards" ; A hopeless task -- Part two: April 1939-April 1942. Starting over ; Occupation and resistance ; The lamps go out ; The irresistible force ; Fire in the sky ; The alliance comes together ; The crown of Wenceslas -- Pt. 3: May 1942-April 1945. Day of the assassins ; Auguries of genocide ; Terezin ; The bridge too far ; Cried-out eyes ; Doodlebugs and gooney birds ; Hitler's end -- Pt. 4: May 1945-November 1948. No angels ; Unpatched ; A world big enough to keep us apart ; A precarious balance ; Struggle for a nation's soul ; A failure to communicate ; The fall ; Sands through the hour-glass -- The next chapter -- Guide to personalities -- Time lines.
From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War. --Publisher's description.
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PUBLISHED
New York : HarperLuxe, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 730 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Large Type
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780062128423
0062128426
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Woodward, William, 1951-
SUBJECTS
Albright, Madeleine Korbel -- Family.
Albright, Madeleine Korbel -- Childhood and youth.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia.
Jewish families -- Prague -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prague.
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945.
Prague (Czech Republic) -- Biography.
Prague (Czech Republic) -- History -- 20th century.