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Apr 24, 2012 · Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948. Madeleine K. Albright. 4.02. 8,055 ratings1,224 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Memoir & Autobiography (2012)
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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
Apr 24, 2012 · The story of Prague Winter is often as intensely personal as a mother’s letter, a father’s hidden sorrow, and the earnest artwork of an imprisoned ten-year-old cousin. The themes, however, are universal: loyalty and betrayal, respect and bigotry, accommodating evil or fighting back.
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Apr 24, 2012 · 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...
Before she turned twelve, Madeleine Albright’s life was shaken by some of the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century: the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the attempted genocide of European Jewry, the allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War.
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Apr 24, 2012 · 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...
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937–1948 | ALA. By Madeleine Albright and Bill Woodward. Harper, $29.99 (9780062030313). About. Accessing political history for a wide readership, Albright renders a powerfully somber accounting of the fates of her extended family during the Holocaust. No reader will close her memoir unmoved.
