| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-444) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Czechoslovakia -- History -- 1938-1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Czechoslovakia.
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Albright, Madeleine Korbel -- Family.
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Albright, Madeleine Korbel -- Childhood and youth.
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Jewish families -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- Biography.
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Prague (Czech Republic) -- Biography.
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Prague (Czech Republic) -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Czech Republic -- Prague.
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| Added Author |
Woodward, Bill.
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| ISBN |
9780062030313 hardback $29.99 |
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0062030310 hardback |
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