Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948
by Albright, Madeleine Korbel.
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. Full description
- Setting out
- Part one: 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
- Part three: 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
- Part four: 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.