Prague winter
Subtitle: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948
By: Madeleine Albright
Edition: FIRST EDITION.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780062030313
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; Family; HISTORY / General; Jewish families; World War, 1939-1945; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting Out; title: Part One: Before March 15, 1939; title: An Unwelcome Guest; title: Tales of Bohemia; title: The Competition; title: The Linden Tree; title: A Favorable Impression; title: Out From Behind the Mountains; title: "We Must Go On Being Cowards"; title: A Hopeless Task; title: Part Two: April 1939-April 1942; title: Starting Over; title: Occupation and Resistance; title: The Lamps Go Out; title: The Irresistible Force; title: Fire in the Sky; title: The Alliance Comes Together; title: The Crown of Wenceslas; title: Part Three: May 1942-April 1945; title: Day of the Assassins; title: Auguries of Genocide; title: Terezin; title: The Bridge Too Far; title: Cried-out Eyes; title: Doodlebugs and Gooney Birds; title: Hitler's End; title: Part Four: May 1945-November 1948; title: No Angels; title: Unpatched; title: A World Big Enough to Keep us Apart; title: A Precarious Balance; title: Struggle for a Nation's Soul; title: A Failure to Communicate; title: The Fall; title: Sands Through the Hour-Glass; title: The Next Chapter; title: Guide to personalities; title: Time Lines.