From Barnes & NobleEven as a child, future U.S. Secretary of State saw history up close. As a young girl, she and her Jewish Czech family experienced the brutal Nazi takeover of her country, and, after their flight to safety, the brutal aerial Battle of Britain. Even their joyous post-World War II return to Prague was destroyed by the communist takeover and the onset of the Cold War. In this gripping memoir, she describes the events that made her the person she is. Now in trade paperback and NOOK Book.
Publishers WeeklyThe author's childhood reminiscences of her first 11 years and savvy grasp of history inform this absorbing account of Czechoslovakia's travails and Albright's family's suffering in the Holocaust. The daughter of a diplomat in the Czech government who migrated from Prague to wartime exile in London and back to postwar Prague, former secretary of state Albright (Madam Secretary) sketches lively recollections of weathering the Blitz and other adventures, but her narrative mainly investigates things hidden from her as a child.
