| Edition |
First Harper Perennial edition. |
| Description |
x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-444) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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, William, 1951-
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| ISBN |
9780062030344 |
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0062030345 |
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