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Title	:	Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Author	:	Madeleine K. Albright
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 467 pages
Published	:	April 24th 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. War. World War II. Biography Memoir

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

Madeleine K. Albright

Hardcover | Pages: 467 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 6120 Users | 1022 Reviews

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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 never-theless 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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Original Title:	Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
ISBN:	0062030310 (ISBN13: 9780062030313)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Czechoslovakia
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2012)

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Prague Winter is a very well-written textbook. The subtitle, though, should really be "A History of Czechoslovakian Involvement in World War II"; if that appeals to you, then you are part of the (very) small target audience for this book.

Had I known in advance exactly what this book was about, I would have left it on the library shelf and had denied myself an excellent read.Madeleine Albright tells the story of Czechoslovakia before, during, and after World War II in a compelling, easy to follow narrative. The experiences of her family provide a thread since her father was an ambassador so she personally met many of the politicos involved, even though she was a young child. She relies on her father's papers and personal

On completion:Never was I bored when I listened to this book. Never was I confused by the facts. The balance between historical detail and personal family events was perfect. I enjoyed that the history of Czechoslovakia during the war was thoroughly covered as well as what happened to her family. I adored learning about Madeleine as a child....she was no angel and what she tells us is often very funny. She got a D minus in geography! OK, that was when she was still very young, so we can forgive

Prague Winter: A personal Story of Remembrance and war, reads more like a well written history book than a personal story of rememberance and I was left feeling a little disappointed with this one as I was really looking forward to reading about the experiences of her family in Europe and while to some extent the book does give us an insight into her family history this is more a book that concerntrates on the politics of the War and Czech Republic's policital history. I did feel it read like a

Prague Winter is a fascinating account of the political and social history of Czechoslakia in the late 1930s through till 1948; from the threat to the actuality of Nazi Germany's invasion, the bitter struggles of Czech communities in exile as well as in their occupied homeland during the war and then the growing Communist ascendancy after it. Her immediate family survived the war in London because her father, as a diplomat, was able to arrange the family's safe exit before the German grip closed

This fascinating book is at once a personal memoir, a history of Czechoslovakia and a narrative of events in Europe during the Second World War. The project of writing the book began when Dr. Albright, a life-long Christian at the age of 59, learned that she had been born a Jew and that many of her relatives (including three grandparents) had died in the Holocaust. She writes,I was shocked and, to be honest, embarrassed to discover that I had not known my family history better...... Nor was I

Very enjoyable read and informative account of the events that occurred in Czechoslovakia before, during, and just after WWII.  It was interesting to learn about the Munich Agreement and the appeasement policy towards Hitler in the late 1930's.  These events had a direct impact on the fate of Czechoslovakia for many years to come.  The story is more of a history book than it is a memoir, since she was just a young girl in the early 1940's.  However, she does share how the war affected many of