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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 Hardcover – 24 April 2012

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Drawing on her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, interviews with contemporaries, and newly-available documents, former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright recounts a tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring.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. 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. Often relying on eyewitness descriptions, she tells the story of how millions of ordinary citizens were ripped from familiar surroundings and forced into new roles as exile leaders and freedom fighters, resistance organizers and collaborators, victims and killers. These events of enormous complexity are shaped by concepts familiar to any growing child: fear, trust, adaptation, the search for identity, the pressure to conform, the quest for independence, and the difference between right and wrong. Prague Winter is an exploration of the past with timeless dilemmas in mind, a journey with universal lessons that is simultaneously a deeply personal memoir and an incisive work of history. It 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. Albright and her family’s experiences provide an intensely human lens through which to view the most political and tumultuous years in modern history.

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Madeleine Albright served as America’s sixty-fourth secretary of state from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career also included positions at the White House, on Capitol Hill, and as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She was a resident of Washington D.C., and Virginia.

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496 pages
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24 April 2012
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16.51 x 3.81 x 23.5 cm
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0062030310
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins (24 April 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062030310
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062030313
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.81 x 23.5 cm

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- 1,144 in History of Eastern Europe (Books)
- 1,190 in Biographies of Jewish People

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Madeleine Albright is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Madam Secretary, The Mighty and the Almighty, Memo to the President, and Read My Pins. She was U.S. Secretary of State from 1997 to 2001. Her distinguished career of public service includes positions in the National Security Council, as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and on Capitol Hill.

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Sir Thomas

An exceptional personal story about the creation and destruction of Czechoslovakia

Reviewed in Australia on 16 June 2018

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An outstanding, highly informative and very readable account of the creation and destruction of Czechoslovakia. Madeleine Albright's personal story is supported with exceptional research and in-depth analysis. I regard this book as the best and most informative on the subject. As a person also born in Czechoslovakia, I have spent some years studying the period covered by Ms Albright. She has answered many questions and opened new avenues for me.

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SusannaP

wonderful memoir and history lesson rolled into one immensely readable book

Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2014

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I thoroughly enjoyed Albright's personal story - a wonderful history lesson, told simply but interestingly.
Excellent for anyone who wants an overall short history of Eastern Europe.
I bought this book because I had recently visited this part of Europe and wanted to understand more.

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Patricia

Factual and entertaining

Reviewed in Canada on 10 July 2022

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Very historical, in fact a little unsettling when you see how World War and the rise of Hitler came about.

David S.

Worth the read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 August 2018

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This book is a powerful story of hope and purpose in the midst of historic tragedy, made poignant by the personal experiences of the author and her family. It's hard not to come away from this book with a deeper appreciation for and respect of the Czech people, including the book's author.

Philly gal

excellent history with a personal approach

Reviewed in the United States on 2 May 2012

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I do have a weakness for reading histories of the first half of the twentieth century. Just when I think there can't be anything new to learn about this time period I read a personal account of events that brings a whole new perspective. Madeleine Albright, former US secretary of state, has written just such a history in recounting events in Czechoslovakia from 1937-1948. Interspersed with these major events is the story of Albright's own family. Her father, Josef Korbel was a diplomat for the Czech government and worked in Prague before WWII, in London during the war and back in Czechoslovakia after the war. His family, Albright and her mother and later a sister and brother accompanied him during this time.
Albright who has access to her father's diplomatic papers gives very good descriptions of the major players in this drama. The larger than life founder of the republic; TG Masaryk is described as is Edvard Benes the Czech president in exile during WWII. Czechoslovakia was really the only true eastern European democracy after WWI. The republic was betrayed at Munich by the British and French when they ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. Albright tells this story from the Czech viewpoint and it reads like a thriller. She also describes scenes and characters from the Czech resistance movement during the war who assassinated the Reich proctor, Reinhard Heydrich. Again the detail in this story is riveting. When the war ends the Czechoslovakia is again abandoned by the western allies and the Soviet Union adds Czechoslovakia to its group of satellite states in eastern Europe. In the immediate post war years Albright's father is a key player in the democratic government and is forced to leave the country after the Soviets murder Jan Marysk the pro western foreign minister. Albright examines all of the evidence about Masaryk's death and concludes as have most historians that he was murdered by the Soviets.
While the national events are interesting, Albright's family story is fascinating. As you might know, Albright found out in the 1990s that her heritage was Jewish and not Roman Catholic as she had thought. Her parents became Catholics in Britain during the war and never discussed with their children that decision. The family was not religious so I continue to be puzzled by this decision made in the relative safety of England in 1940. Albright seems as mystified by the decision as I was. Most of her extended family (grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles) was lost in the Holocaust. She discussed this in the book, and as with any story that puts faces on this horrific story it is quite moving. Her family experienced the Blitz in London and the post war events in Prague and in Belgrade where her father was ambassador. She details the leadership failings that allowed communism to rise in Czechoslovakia. The book ends the story in 1948 when the Korbels immigrate to the United States.
I was interested to read this book because I will attend an author event where Albright will speak about the story. Only in American could someone, a woman no less, come as an immigrant and end up as the secretary of state. Can't wait to hear her story first hand!

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Madeleine Albright erzählt anschaulich und eindringlich über ihre Kindheit als Tochter eines tschechischen Diplomaten kurz vor und während des zweiten Weltkrieges. Sie schildert mit großer Eindringlichkeit die Schicksale ihrer Familienangehörigen, die in Tschechien verblieben waren und denen die Flucht vor der Nazi-Herrschaft nicht gelang. Trotz der schrecklichen Schicksale im engsten Familienkreis schreibt Madeleine Albright nie revanchistisch sondern mahnt Frieden und Demokratie an, gerade auch vor dem Hintergrund der Konflikte auf dem Balkan oder in Afrika. Ein Buch, das sehr zum Nachdenken anregt und unbedingt weiterempfohlen werden sollte.

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最初の女性国務長官による自伝

Reviewed in Japan on 12 December 2012

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最初の女性国務長官によるチェコ現代史(＝自伝)。クライマックスは英国・チェコ亡命政府によるハイドリヒの暗殺。ナチズムとスターリニズムという左右の全体主義からの亡命ユダヤ人がアメリカ合衆国を支えていることが理解できる。

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