Death Comes in Yellow

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Death Comes in Yellow
Felicja Karay (Author)
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Death Comes in Yellow" presents the history of one slave labor camp in order to shed light on all aspects of the slave labor camps established in Poland under German occupation. Hasag-Skarzysko was one of hundreds of camps scattered throughout occupied Poland. They were distinguished by size, the nationality of the prisoners, their location, the date of their establishment, and the authority in charge. The large number of labor camps reflected the German policy of exploiting the work forces of the occupied countries. These camps were part of a Europe-wide system of forced labor.
The first part of this volume reviews the external history of the camp. The second section, which studies the internal workings of the camp, is quite different in approach and includes an analysis of prisoner society and a moving description of the individual prisoner's struggle to survive.

• Rank: #90216 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-01-11
• Released on: 2013-01-11
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• Number of items: 1

KARAS OF 24 ESKADRA AT WAR

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KARAS OF 24 ESKADRA AT WAR
by Tomasz J. Kopanski

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The fascinating and untold story of the 24 Eskadra of the Polish Air Force in September 1939. 24 Eskadra was the only unit during September 1939 which ended the Polish Campaign with the same number of aircraft as it started, despite heavy losses. The operations of the unit, its successes and losses, are described in detail in this book.Also this was the sole unit which used the most modern liaison aircraft in Poland, the LWS-3 Mewa. This new book is full of unpublished photos of the Karas, the major reconnaissance and attack aircraft in Polish service, and of the Mewa.

• Rank: #226778 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

The Essential Guide to Being Polish

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The Essential Guide to Being Polish
by Anna Spysz, Marta Turek

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Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter--and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore,and customs, there is no single, comprehensive, reader-friendly and yet ever-informative reference on what it means to be Polish. Enter The Essential Guide to Being Polish--the go-to concise resource for anyone looking to reconnect with their culture or, indeed, hoping that their friends, children, or colleagues learn something about their heritage. 

Divided into three sections to make for an easy-to-follow format--Poland in Context, Poles in Poland, and Poles Abroad--this guide covers just about everything and does so in a style that is at once entertaining and informative: the country's history and geography, wars, Jews in Poland, the communist past, the postcommunist past and present, language, kings and queens, religion/Catholicism (with special focus on Pope John Paul II), holidays, food, and drink. What is a real Polish wedding all about? That, too, is addressed succinctly and with flair in this guide. Other chapters cover literature, music, art, famous scientists, Polish men and Polish women, Poles in America, Poles in the UK, Poles and the EU, and last but not least, Polish pride.

• Rank: #535213 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-16
• Released on: 2013-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood

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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Memoir of a Wartime Childhood
Renata Calverley (Author)

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September, 1939. Przemysl, Poland. Three-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rages around them.

No one has explained to Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her beautiful Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university anymore. But, more than anything, she notices that their frequent visitors - among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Uncle Julek with their gifts of melon and lovely clothes - have stopped coming entirely. One morning Mamusia returns home with little yellow, six-pointed stars for them to wear. Renata thinks that they will keep them safe.

June, 1942. Two soldiers in grey-green uniforms burst into their apartment carrying guns. Renata, Mamusia and grandmother ’Babcia’ are taken to the Ghetto and crammed into one room with other frightened families. The adults are forced to work long hours at the factory and to survive on next to no food. One day Mamusia and Babcia do not return from their shifts.

Renata is six years old. Utterly alone, she is passed from place to place and survives through the willingness of ordinary people to take the most deadly risks. Her unlikely blonde hair and blue eyes and other twists of fate save her life but stories become her salvation. Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales transport her to a magical world; David Copperfield reminds her what it is like to be on your own; and the family in Swallow and Amazons become the family she longs for.

A true story of the horrors of war, Let Me Tell You a Story is a powerful and moving memoir of growing up in extraordinary times, and of the magical discovery of books.

• Rank: #182615 in eBooks
• Published on: 2013-04-11
• Released on: 2013-04-11
• Number of items: 1

Dark Heart of Hitler

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Dark Heart of Hitler
by Martin Winstone

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After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Krakow, fell under Nazi occupation in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'. The region was not directly incorporated into the Reich but was ruled by a German regime, headed by the brutal and corrupt Governor General Hans Frank. This was indeed the dark heart of Hitler's empire. As the principal 'racial laboratory' of the Third Reich, it was the site of Aktion Reinhard, the largest killing operation of the Holocaust, and of a campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing against Poles which was intended to be a template for the rest of eastern Europe. This book provides a thorough history of the General Government and the experiences of the Poles, Jews and others trapped in its clutches. Employing previously underused sources, Martin Winstone provides a unique insight into the occupation regime which dominated much of Poland during World War II.

• Rank: #340879 in Books
• Published on: 2013-09
• Binding: Hardcover
• 336 pages

The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust (The Modern Jewish Experience)

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The House at Ujazdowskie 16: Jewish Families in Warsaw after the Holocaust (The Modern Jewish Experience)
by Karen Auerbach

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In a turn-of-the-century, once elegant building at 16 Ujazdowskie Avenue in the center of Warsaw, 10 Jewish families began reconstructing their lives after the Holocaust. While most surviving Polish Jews were making their homes in new countries, these families rebuilt on the rubble of the Polish capital and created new communities as they sought to distance themselves from the memory of a painful past. Based on interviews with family members, intensive research in archives, and the families' personal papers and correspondence, Karen Auerbach presents an engrossing story of loss and rebirth, political faith and disillusionment, and the persistence of Jewishness.

• Rank: #309149 in Books
• Published on: 2013-08-07
• Released on: 2013-08-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945

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Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945
by Edward Reicher, Magda Bogin, Elisabeth Bizouard-Reicher

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"I did not enjoy hearing my father's stories; nor did I like to think back on my own. I was afraid of memory's clarifying power. Can one die again and again? Later, I came to understand that I could not shortchange the past."—Elisabeth Bizouard-Reicher, from the introduction

Country of Ash is the gripping chronicle of a Jewish doctor who miraculously survived near-certain death, first inside the Lodz and Warsaw ghettoes, where he was forced to treat the Gestapo, then on the Aryan side of Warsaw, where he hid under numerous disguises. He clandestinely recorded the terrible events he witnessed, but his manuscript disappeared during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. After the war, reunited with his wife and young daughter, he rewrote his story.

Peopled with historical figures like the controversial Chaim Rumkowski, who fancied himself a king of the Jews, to infamous Nazi commanders, to dozens of Jews and non-Jews who played cat and mouse with death throughout the war, Reicher's memoir is about a community faced with extinction and the chance decisions and strokes of luck that kept a few stunned souls alive.

Edward Reicher (1900–1975) served as a critical witness in the Nuremburg Trials and, in 1961, at the Salzburg Tribunal as to Hermann Höfle's role in Operation Reinhard, which sent hundreds of thousands to concentration camps. Country of Ash was published first in French in 1990 thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Elisabeth Bizouard-Reicher. This is the first time his memoir has appeared in English.

Magda Bogin, acclaimed novelist and translator of Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits, translated Country of Ash into English.

• Rank: #717699 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project

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Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project
Jack Mayer (Author)
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During World War II, Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker, organized a rescue network of fellow social workers to save 2,500 Jewish children from certain death in the Warsaw ghetto. Incredibly, after the war her heroism, like that of many others, was suppressed by communist Poland and remained virtually unknown for 60 years.

Unknown, that is, until three high school girls from an economically depressed, rural school district in southeast Kansas stumbled upon a tantalizing reference to Sendler’s rescues, which they fashioned into a history project, a play they called Life in a Jar. Their innocent drama was first seen in Kansas, then the Midwest, then New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, and finally Poland, where they elevated Irena Sendler to a national hero, championing her legacy of tolerance and respect for all people.

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project is a Holocaust history and more. It is the inspirational story of Protestant students from Kansas, each carrying her own painful burden, each called in her own complex way to the history of a Catholic woman who knocked on Jewish doors in the Warsaw ghetto and, in Sendler’s own words, “tried to talk the mothers out of their children.” Inspired by Irena Sendler, they are living examples of the power of one person to change the world and models for young people everywhere.

Sixty percent (60%) of the royalties of Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project are donated to the Irena Sendler/Life in a Jar Foundation. The foundation promotes Irena Sendler’s legacy and encourages educators and students to emulate the project by focusing on unsung heroes in history to teach respect and understanding among all people, regardless of race, religion, or creed.

• Rank: #16506 in eBooks
• Published on: 2011-03-28
• Released on: 2011-03-28
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia

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With Fire and Sword: An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia
Henryk Sienkiewicz (Author)
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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, shamanism and ancient knowledge. Our books are available in digital format. We have approximately 50 thousand titles in 40 different languages and we work hard every single day in order to convert more titles to digital format and make them available for our readers. Currently, we have 2000 titles available for purchase in 35 Countries in addition to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Our titles contain an interactive table of contents for ease of navigation of the book. We sincerely hope you enjoy these treasures in the form of digital books.

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• Published on: 2012-12-27
• Released on: 2012-12-27
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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
by Eva Hoffman
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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto

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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto
by Dawid Sierakowiak, Alan Adelson, Kamil Turowski
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Dawid's diaries are a terrifying record, all the more so because of the observant intelligence that presisted through life in a man-made hell. --The Atlantic Monthly There are books whose reading overshadows and eclipses all other literary materials. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak is one of them. --Joanna Rostropowics-Clark, Nowy Dziennik Takes its place with the great Holocaust diaries--Anne Frank, Emmanuel Ringleblum, Adam Czerniakow --Robert Leiter, Jewish Exponent

• Rank: #16938 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.03" h x .63" w x 5.35" l, .54 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 271 pages

Polish Armies of the Partitions 1770-94 (Men-At-Arms 485)

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Polish Armies of the Partitions 1770-94 (Men-At-Arms 485)
Vincent W. Rospond (Author), Raffaele Ruggeri (Illustrator)

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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World

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Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
by Jan Karski, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Madeleine Albright

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Jan Karski's Story of a Secret State stands as one of the most poignant and inspiring memoirs of World War II and the Holocaust. With elements of a spy thriller, documenting his experiences in the Polish Underground, and as one of the first accounts of the systematic slaughter of the Jews by the German Nazis, this volume is a remarkable testimony of one man's courage and a nation's struggle for resistance against overwhelming oppression.

Karski was a brilliant young student, training to be a diplomat, when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler's invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. He became a member of the Polish Underground, the most significant resistance movement in occupied Europe, acting as a liaison and courier between the Underground and the Polish government-in-exile. He was twice smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto, and entered the Nazi's Izbica transit camp disguised as a guard, witnessing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust.

Karski's courage and testimony, conveyed in a breathtaking manner in Story of a Secret State, offer the narrative of one of the world's greatest eyewitnesses and an inspiration for all of humanity, emboldening each of us to rise to the challenge of standing up against evil and for human rights. This definitive edition -- which includes a foreword by Madeleine Albright, a biographical essay by Yale historian Timothy Snyder, an afterword by Zbigniew Brzezinski, previously unpublished photos, notes, further reading, and a glossary -- is an apt legacy for this hero of conscience during the most fraught and fragile moment in modern history.

• Rank: #299074 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok

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There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
by Yaffa Eliach
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For 900 years the Polish shtetl was a home to generations of Jewish families. In 1944 almost every Jew was murdered and with them died a way of life that had survived for centuries. Yaffa Eliach has written a landmark history of the shtetl.

• Rank: #1031162 in Books
• Published on: 1999-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.00" h x 1.50" w x 7.60" l, 2.97 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 864 pages

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
by Slavomir Rawicz
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The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

• Rank: #140862 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x .83" w x 6.02" l, .86 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present

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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present
by Norman Davies
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The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God's Playground demonstrates Poland's importance in European history from medieval times to the present. Abandoning the traditional nationalist approach to Polish history, Norman Davies instead stresses the country's rich multinational heritage and places the development of the Jewish German, Ukrainian, and Lithuanian communities firmly within the Polish context.

Davies emphasizes the cultural history of Poland through a presentation of extensive poetical, literary, and documentary texts in English translation. In each volume, chronological chapters of political narrative are interspersed with essays on religious, social, economic, constitutional, philosophical, and diplomatic themes.

This new edition has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of the twentieth century.

• Rank: #135480 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.50" w x 6.10" l, 2.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 591 pages

Historical Dictionary of Poland (Historical Dictionaries of Europe)

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Historical Dictionary of Poland (Historical Dictionaries of Europe)
by Jakub Basista

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The Historical Dictionary of Poland contains a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries.

• Rank: #2067565 in Books
• Published on: 2012-12-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• 480 pages

The Second Homeland: Polish Refugees in India

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The Second Homeland: Polish Refugees in India
by Anuradha Bhattacharjee

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This book documents the passage of the Polish refugees arriving in India from the USSR in 1942. Readers will get an authentic account of their tribulations through the first-person account of a young Polish orphan’s hair-raising journey to India and his experiences during the stay. Author Anuradha Bhattacharjee includes a historical perspective culled out from archival documents in India, the UK and Poland.

This is a unique mix of a diary, oral history and historical viewpoint placed adjacent to a compilation of archival personal photographs. The book beautifully brings out a little-known aspect of European exiles in India during the Second World War.

• Rank: #553456 in Books
• Published on: 2012-12-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
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• 388 pages

Let Me Tell You a Story

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Let Me Tell You a Story
by Renata Calverley

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Poland

Przemysl, Poland, 1939. Three-year-old Renata is woken by her Mamusia in the middle of the night and bundled into the basement. The peacock quilt she is wrapped in reminds her of a story about a giant who guards a mysterious place called the Underworld. She drifts back to sleep as the sound of thunder rages around them. No one has explained to Renata what war is. She knows her Tatus, a doctor, is in Europe with the Polish Army and that her beautiful Mamusia is not allowed to work at the university anymore. But, more than anything, she notices that their frequent visitors - among them Great Aunt Zuzia and Uncle Julek with their gifts of melon and lovely clothes - have stopped coming entirely. One morning Mamusia returns home with little yellow, six-pointed stars for them to wear. Renata thinks that they will keep them safe. June, 1942. Two soldiers in grey-green uniforms burst into their apartment carrying guns. Renata, Mamusia and grandmother 'Babcia' are taken to the Ghetto and crammed into one room with other frightened families. The adults are forced to work long hours at the factory and to survive on next to no food. One day Mamusia and Babcia do not return from their shifts. Renata is six years old. Utterly alone, she is passed from place to place and survives through the willingness of ordinary people to take the most deadly risks. Her unlikely blonde hair and blue eyes and other twists of fate save her life but stories become her salvation. A true story of the horrors of war, Let Me Tell You a Story is a powerful and moving memoir of growing up in extraordinary times, and of the magical discovery of books.

• Rank: #964901 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-11
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• 352 pages

The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945
by Wladyslaw Szpilman
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Named one of the Best Books of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Pianist is now a major motion picture directed by Roman Polanski and starring Adrien Brody (Son of Sam). The Pianist won the Cannes Film Festival’s most prestigious prize—the Palme d’Or.

On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn’t hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air.

Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.

• Rank: #8495 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .55" w x 5.47" l, .45 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Madeleine Albright (Author)
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Before Madeleine Albright turned twelve, her life was shaken by the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia—the country where she was born—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.

Albright's experiences, and those of her family, provide a lens through which to view the most tumultuous dozen years in modern history. 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. Prague Winter is an exploration of the past with timeless dilemmas in mind and, simultaneously, a journey with universal lessons that is intensely personal.

The book takes readers from the Bohemian capital's thousand-year-old castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of Terezín to the highest councils of European and American government. 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 exiled leaders and freedom fighters, resistance organizers and collaborators, victims and killers. These events of enormous complexity are nevertheless 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.

"No one who lived through the years of 1937 to 1948," Albright writes, "was a stranger to profound sadness. Millions of innocents did not survive, and their deaths must never be forgotten. Today we lack the power to reclaim lost lives, but we have a duty to learn all that we can about what happened and why." 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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• Published on: 2012-04-24
• Released on: 2012-04-24
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