Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward.
| Author/creator | Albright, Madeleine Korbel |
| Other author | Woodward, William, 1951- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2012] |
| Description | x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-444) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011049416 |
| ISBN | 9780062030313 |
| ISBN | 0062030310 |