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Prague in Danger

Author : Peter Demetz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429930357
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Prague in Danger written by Peter Demetz and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-04-14 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakia's great capital during the Nazi Protectorate With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years—a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then—a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories—and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under German occupation with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain. Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence: a Prague that kept its German- and Czech-language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.

Prague Winter

Author : Madeleine Albright
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062030361
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Prague Winter written by Madeleine Albright and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A riveting tale of her family’s experience in Europe during World War II [and] a well-wrought political history of the region, told with great authority. . . . More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy.” -- Los Angeles Times Drawn from her own memory, her parents’ written reflections, and interviews with contemporaries, the former US Secretary of State and New York Times bestselling author Madeleine Albright's tale that is by turns harrowing and inspiring Before she turned twelve, Madeleine Albright’s life was shaken by some of the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century: the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, the Battle of Britain, the attempted genocide of European Jewry, the allied victory in World War II, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. In Prague Winter, 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 exile leaders and freedom fighters, resistance organizers and collaborators, victims and killers. These events of enormous complexity are 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. Prague Winter is an exploration of the past with timeless dilemmas in mind, a journey with universal lessons that is simultaneously a deeply personal memoir and an incisive work of history. It 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 in history. Albright and her family’s experiences provide an intensely human lens through which to view the most political and tumultuous years in modern history.

The Lights of Prague

Author : Nicole Jarvis
Publisher : Titan Books
ISBN 13 : 1789093961
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Lights of Prague written by Nicole Jarvis and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of VE Schwab and The Witcher, science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight-era Prague. In the quiet streets of Prague all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures. Despite this, Domek find solace in his moments spent in the company of his friend, the clever and beautiful Lady Ora Fischer - a widow with secrets of her own. When Domek finds himself stalked by the spirit of the White Lady - a ghost who haunts the baroque halls of Prague castle – he stumbles across the sentient essence of a will-o'-the-wisp captured in a mysterious container. Now, as it's bearer, Domek wields its power, but the wisp, known for leading travellers to their deaths, will not be so easily controlled. After discovering a conspiracy amongst the pijavice that could see them unleash terror on the daylight world, Domek finds himself in a race against those who aim to twist alchemical science for their own dangerous gain.

Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691043809
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century written by Derek Sayer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-07 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserts that Prague could well be seen as the capital of the twentieth century, describing how the city has experienced and suffered more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis.

Prague

Author : Chad Bryant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674048652
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Chad Bryant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of EuropeÕs most stunning cities. What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of PragueÕs inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the nation, embodied in the capital city. Grandiose medieval buildings and monuments to national heroes boast of a glorious, shared history. Past governments, democratic and Communist, layered the city with architecture that melded politics and nationhood. Not all inhabitants, however, felt included in these efforts to nurture national belonging. Socialists, dissidents, Jews, Germans, and VietnameseÑall have been subject to hatred and political persecution in the city they called home. Chad Bryant tells the stories of five marginalized individuals who, over the last two centuries, forged their own notions of belonging in one of EuropeÕs great cities. An aspiring guidebook writer, a German-speaking newspaperman, a Bolshevik carpenter, an actress of mixed heritage who came of age during the Communist terror, and a Czech-speaking Vietnamese blogger: none of them is famous, but their lives are revealing. They speak to tensions between exclusionary nationalism and on-the-ground diversity. In their struggles against alienation and dislocation, they forged alternative communities in cafes, workplaces, and online. While strolling park paths, joining political marches, or writing about their lives, these outsiders came to embody a city that, on its surface, was built for others. A powerful and creative meditation on place and nation, the individual and community, Prague envisions how cohesion and difference might coexist as it acknowledges a need common to all.

Prague

Author : Arthur Phillips
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921640545
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Prague written by Arthur Phillips and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prague depicts an intentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five American expats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek their fortune — financial, romantic, and spiritual — in an exotic city newly opened to the West. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts in Prague, where the atmospheric decay of post–Cold War Europe is even more cinematically perfect, have it better. Still, they hope to find adventure, inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making. What they actually find is a deceptively beautiful place that they often fail to understand. What does it mean to fret about your fledgling career when the man across the table was tortured by two different regimes? How does your short, uneventful life compare to the lives of those who actually resisted, fought, and died? What does your angst mean in a city still pocked with bullet holes from war and crushed rebellion? Journalist John Price finds these questions impossible to answer yet impossible to avoid, though he tries to forget them in the din of Budapest's nightclubs, in a romance with a secretive young diplomat, at the table of an elderly cocktail pianist, and in the moody company of a young man obsessed with nostalgia. Arriving in Budapest one spring day to pursue his elusive brother, John finds himself pursuing something else entirely, something he can't quite put a name to, something that will draw him into stories much larger than himself.

The Story of Prague

Author : Francis Lützow (hrabě)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Prague written by Francis Lützow (hrabě) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of Prague

Author : Francis Lützow
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022190474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Prague written by Francis Lützow and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated book, Francis Lützow takes readers on a tour of one of Europe's most enchanting cities. From its medieval origins to its modern-day charms, Prague has a long and fascinating history. Lützow covers all the major landmarks and events that have shaped the city's past and present, including the Charles Bridge, the Velvet Revolution, and Kafka's haunting presence. A perfect guide for armchair travelers and wanderlustful adventurers alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Prague Stories

Author : Richard Bassett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841596280
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Prague Stories written by Richard Bassett and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual centre of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, legends, and scenes from the city's past and present, from the Jewish fable of the golem, a creature conjured from clay, to tales of German and Soviet invasions. The international array of writers ranges from Franz Kafka to Ivan Klima to Bruce Chatwin, and includes the award-winning British playwright Tom Stoppard and former American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, both of whom have Czech roots. Covering the city's venerable Jewish heritage, the glamour of the belle-epoque period, World War II, Communist rule, the Prague Spring, the Velvet Revolution, and beyond, Prague Stories weaves a remarkable selection of fiction and nonfiction into a literary portrait of a fascinating city

Prague Fatale

Author : Philip Kerr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101580321
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Prague Fatale written by Philip Kerr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former detective and reluctant SS officer Bernie Gunther must infiltrate a brutal world of spies, partisan terrorists, and high-level traitors in this “clever and compelling”(The Daily Beast) New York Times bestseller from Philip Kerr. Berlin, 1941. Bernie is back from the Eastern Front, once again working homicide in Berlin's Kripo and answering to Reinhard Heydrich, a man he both detests and fears. Heydrich has been newly named Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. Tipped off that there is an assassin in his midst, he orders Bernie to join him at his country estate outside Prague, where he has invited some of the Third Reich's most odious officials to celebrate his new appointment. One of them is the would-be assassin. Bernie can think of better ways to spend a beautiful autumn weekend, but, as he says, “You don't say no to Heydrich and live.”

The Prague Cemetery

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547577613
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The Prague Cemetery written by Umberto Eco and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prague Cemetery is the #1 international bestselling historical novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco. Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Conspiracies rule history. From the unification of Italy to the Paris Commune to the Dreyfus Affair to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe is in tumult and everyone needs a scapegoat. But what if behind all of these conspiracies, both real and imagined, lay one lone man? “Choreographed by a truth that is itself so strange a novelist need hardly expand on it to produce a wondrous tale... Eco is to be applauded for bringing this stranger-than-fiction truth vividly to life.” —The New York Times

The Story of Prague

Author : Hrabe Francis Lützow
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290161459
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Prague written by Hrabe Francis Lützow and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Story of Prague

Author : Francis hrabe Lützow
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Prague written by Francis hrabe Lützow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of Prague" is a book that discusses the history of Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic. The book contains the history of Prague at its earliest period, from the reigns of Charles IV to the executions at Prague in 1621, through Walks and Excursions near Prague. It is an informative book that tells the history of this incredible city with adequate annotations and illustrations.

Jewish Stories of Prague

Author : V. V. Tomek
Publisher : Sharpless House
ISBN 13 : 1438230052
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Stories of Prague written by V. V. Tomek and published by Sharpless House. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than eight centuries, the Jews of Prague lived in the Prague ghetto. During that time, Jewish Prague had always been a place of much mystery to outsiders, even to the closest Christian neighbors. Uncover the secrets of this long forgotten world. Learn about how the famous Old-New Synagogue received its name; about the four words that saved the Prague Jews in the Middle Ages; about Rabbi Loew and his Golem who could be brought to life by inserting a magic card into his mouth; about the Candelabra of Jerusalem finding its way to Prague; about hard-working Maisel and his inheritance; about how the faith of Pinkas was tried; about learned Rabbi Rashi's grave; and about much more.

The Golem of Prague

Author : Irène Cohen-Janca
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781554518883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book The Golem of Prague written by Irène Cohen-Janca and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This retelling of an ancient Jewish legend will capture a new audience with its powerful illustrations and timeless text.

The Story of Prague

Author : C. Lutzow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849026881
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Prague written by C. Lutzow and published by . This book was released on 1976-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Puppets of Prague

Author : David Canford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Puppets of Prague written by David Canford and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the dream of freedom overcome fear and oppression? Friendships, marriages and loyalties are tested to the limit in this novel which spans Prague's tumultuous twentieth century . In the summer of 1914 young love beckons and the future seems bright for three friends as they reach adulthood, but dark clouds are gathering and momentous events throw into stark relief the differences between them that had never mattered before. From WW1 and the heady days of liberty which follow, to Nazi occupation and afterwards Communist dictatorship, life threatening risks must be taken and families are torn apart by the choices they make. Conflict and hardship will bring out both the good and the bad, and in unexpected ways. A moving story set in one of the world's most enchanting and fascinating cities.