Prague Winter; A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (Author photograph) New York, NY: Harper, 2012. First edition [stated]. Third printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. x, [2], 467, [1] pages. Illustrated Endpapers. Illustrations. Guide to Personalities. Time Lines. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born Marie Jana Korbelova; May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat. She is the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State. She was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton on December 5, 1996, and was unanimously confirmed by a U.S. Senate vote of 99 0. She was sworn in on January 23, 1997. Albright currently serves as a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. In May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Obama. Secretary Albright also serves on the board of the Council on Foreign Relations. Albright is fluent in English, French, Russian, and Czech. Derived from a Kirkus review: The former U.S. secretary of state blends World War II–era history and memoir in her account of her discovery, at age 59, that she had lost more than two-dozen relatives in the Holocaust. Albright’s parents had never told her of her Jewish heritage, and in January 1997 she had only recently learned of it when a Washington Post reporter broke the larger story. She spent the ensuing years researching her family’s history. She was aided in her endeavors by family material she found stored in boxes in her garage—and by a small research team. The initial sections are principally a summary of history of the region and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis. Occasionally, she slips into the first person to talk about the activities of her father, a career diplomat, and her mother, a diplomat’s wife. The most gripping parts are her personal stories. Albright sometimes focuses more on politics and the war than on the remembrance. The personal passages increase in number and detail as she grows older. The later sections, about the postwar politics in Czechoslovakia, are engaging--especially the communists’ moves to subvert the fledgling democracy. Condition: Very good / Very good.
Keywords: Secretary of State, Auschwitz, Eduard Benes, Neville Chamberlain, Klement Gottwald, Reinhard Heydrich, Korbel, Masaryk, Slovakia, Sudeten, Terezin, Prague
ISBN: 9780062030313
[Book #71313]
Price: $25.00