02741cam a2200433 i 4500 771237350 TxAuBib 20120427120000.0 111201s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011049416 9780062030313 HRD $29.99 0062030310 HRD $29.99 DLC eng DLC rda TxAuBib rda Albright, Madeleine Korbel. Prague winter [Book] : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright. FIRST EDITION. New York : Harper, 2012. 352 p. ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. PW 02/27/2012. Kirkus 03/15/2012. The former Secretary of State paints a portrait of her early life from 1937 to 1948 during which she witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. 20120427. Eleanor Steele Blocher Endowment Fund. Albright, Madeleine Korbel Family. Albright, Madeleine Korbel Childhood and youth. World War, 1939-1945 Czechoslovakia. World War, 1939-1945 Czech Republic Prague. Jewish families Czech Republic Prague Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. HISTORY / General. Czechoslovakia History 1938-1945. Prague (Czech Republic) Biography. Prague (Czech Republic) History 20th century.