Book recommendation NO.1: "Prague Winter", by Madeleine Albright

I have just finished reading ”Prague Winter”. It is highly recommendable.


My book review: Former US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright tells about her early childhood in Prague, Czechoslovakia during the turmoil of Nazi occupation; her life in London, UK during World War II and the onset of the Cold War, when she lived in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The book is very personal and a combination of an autobiography and a drama. A serious work of history, where Albright traces her family’s history and touches upon the fact that she was raised Catholic and learned about her Jewish heritage as a 59-yearold – one month before she took office as Secretary of State. The reader learns that Albright lost several family members at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. Finally, she also gives a thorough insight in the cultural and political history of the region and of the multilingual, blended heritage of Czechs, Slovaks, Germans, Hungarians and others.

Details: "Prague Winter: A personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948". Author: Madeleine Albright. Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013.