{"product_id":"9780997818475","title":"Hitler, Stalin \u0026 I: An Oral History","description":"\u003cp\u003eHeda Margolius Kovály (1919-2010) was a renowned Czech writer and translator born to Jewish parents. Her bestselling memoir, \u003ci\u003eUnder a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968\u003c\/i\u003e has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Her crime novel \u003ci\u003eInnocence; or Murder on Steep Street\u003c\/i\u003e—based on her own experiences living under Stalinist oppression—was named an NPR Best Book in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Studs Terkel, \u003ci\u003eHitler, Stalin and I\u003c\/i\u003e is based on interviews between Kovály and award-winning filmmaker Helena Treštíková. In it, Kovály recounts her family history in Czechoslovakia, starving in the deprivations of the Lodz Ghetto, her escape from a death march out of Auschwitz, failing to find sanctuary amongst former friends in Prague as concentration camp escapee, participation in the liberation of Prague, and trying to live in a Stalinist country after her first husband was framed and executed for treason. Remarkably, Kovály, exiled in the United States after the brutal crushing of the Prague Spring, only had love for her country and continued to believe in its people. She returned to Prague in 1996.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeda had an enormous talent for expressing herself. She spoke with precision and was descriptive and witty in places. I admired her attitude and composure, even after she had such extremely difficult experiences. Nazism and Communism afflicted Heda's life directly with maximum intensity. Nevertheless, she remained an optimist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHelena Treštíková\u003c\/b\u003e has made over fifty documentary films. \u003ci\u003eHitler, Stalin and I\u003c\/i\u003e has garnered several awards in the Czech Republic and Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DoppelHouse Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47029965127920,"sku":"9780997818475","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780997818475_p0.jpg?v=1763957070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997818475","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}