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作       者:Albright, Madeleine

出  版  社:Harper

出版时间:2012-04-24

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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 Teren 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 de*ions, 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 nevertheless 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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Cover

Endpaper

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Setting Out

Part I: BEFORE MARCH 15, 1939

Chapter 1: An Unwelcome Guest

Chapter 2: Tales of Bohemia

Chapter 3: The Competition

Chapter 4: The Linden Tree

Chapter 5: A Favorable Impression

Chapter 6: Out from Behind the Mountains

Chapter 7: “We Must Go On Being Cowards”

Chapter 8: A Hopeless Task

Part II: APRIL 1939–APRIL 1942

Chapter 9: Starting Over

Chapter 10: Occupation and Resistance

Chapter 11: The Lamps Go Out

Chapter 12: The Irresistible Force

Chapter 13: Fire in the Sky

Chapter 14: The Alliance Comes Together

Chapter 15: The Crown of Wenceslas

Part III: MAY 1942–APRIL 1945

Chapter 16: Day of the Assassins

Chapter 17: Auguries of Genocide

Chapter 18: Terezín

Chapter 19: The Bridge Too Far

Chapter 20: Cried-out Eyes

Chapter 21: Doodlebugs and Gooney Birds

Chapter 22: Hitler’s End

Part IV: MAY 1945–NOVEMBER 1948

Chapter 23: No Angels

Chapter 24: Unpatched

Chapter 25: A World Big Enough to Keep Us Apart

Chapter 26: A Precarious Balance

Chapter 27: Struggle for a Nation’s Soul

Chapter 28: A Failure to Communicate

Chapter 29: The Fall

Chapter 30: Sands Through the Hourglass

The Next Chapter

Guide to Personalities

Time Lines

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Authors

Also by the Madeleine Albright

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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