EAN: 9780062030344

PRAGUE WINTER - MADELEINE KORBEL ALBRIGHT KARTO...

Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve  her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of her native
Prague  the Battle of Britain  the near-total destruction of European Jewry  the Allied victory
in World War II  the rise of communism  and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on her memory 
her parents' written reflections  interviews with contemporaries  and newly available documents
Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring. In Prague Winter   Albright
reflects on her discovery of her family's Jewish heritage many decades after the war  on her
Czech homeland's tangled history  and on the stark moral choices faced by her parents and their
generation. At once a deeply personal memoir and an incisive work of history  Prague Winter
serves as a guide to the future through the lessons of the past?as seen through the eyes of one
of the international community's most respected and fascinating figures.

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