Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 /
Albright, Madeleine Korbel.
Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward. - 1st edition. - New York : Harper, - x, 467 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-444) and index.
Setting Out -- Part One: 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 -- Part Three: 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 -- Part Four: 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.
The former Secretary of State paints a portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
0062030310 : HRD $29.99 9780062030313
Harpercollins, Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 SAN 200-2086
2011049416
Albright, Madeleine Korbel--Family.
Albright, Madeleine Korbel--Childhood and youth.
World War, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia.
Jewish families--Czech Republic--Prague--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Czech Republic--Prague.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY / General.
Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
Prague (Czech Republic)--Biography.
Prague (Czech Republic)--History--20th century.
DB2207 / .A43 2012
943.71/2033092
Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward. - 1st edition. - New York : Harper, - x, 467 pages : illustration, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-444) and index.
Setting Out -- Part One: 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 -- Part Three: 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 -- Part Four: 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.
The former Secretary of State paints a portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
0062030310 : HRD $29.99 9780062030313
Harpercollins, Keystone Industrial Park, Scranton, PA, USA, 18512 SAN 200-2086
2011049416
Albright, Madeleine Korbel--Family.
Albright, Madeleine Korbel--Childhood and youth.
World War, 1939-1945--Czechoslovakia.
Jewish families--Czech Republic--Prague--Biography.
World War, 1939-1945--Czech Republic--Prague.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY / General.
Czechoslovakia--History--1938-1945.
Prague (Czech Republic)--Biography.
Prague (Czech Republic)--History--20th century.
DB2207 / .A43 2012
943.71/2033092