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Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright ; with Bill Woodward.
LIBRA DB2207 .A43 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel.
- Jewish families.
- Families.
- Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
- Czechoslovakia.
- History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel--Family.
- Albright, Madeleine Korbel--Childhood and youth.
- Jewish families--Czech Republic--Prague--Biography.
- Prague (Czech Republic)--Biography.
- Prague (Czech Republic).
- Prague (Czech Republic)--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Czech Republic--Prague.
- Czech Republic--Prague.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper, [2012]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062030313
- 0062030310
- OCLC:
- 757483836
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