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

Before she turned twelve, Madeleine Albrightamp;#8217;s life was shaken by some of the most cataclysmic events of the 20^th 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.amp;#160;

In Prague Winter, Albright reflects on her discovery of her familyamp;#8217;s Jewish heritage many decades after the war, on her Czech homelandamp;#8217;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.amp;#160;

Prague Winteramp;#160;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.amp;#160;Itamp;#160;serves as a guide to the future through the lessons of the past, as seen through the eyes of one of the international communityamp;#8217;s most respected and fascinating figures. Albright and her familyamp;#8217;s experiences provide an intensely human lens through which to view the most political and tumultuous years in modern history.

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