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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 943.712033
Fabric Type: 9780374531560
Fax Number: 1 Reprint
Legal Disclaimer: 0374531560
Maximum Color Depth: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Metal Type: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 288
Total External Bays Free: April 14, 2009
Total Firewire Ports: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Parallel Ports: April 14, 2009
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Features:- ISBN13: 9780374531560
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
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 history in the great Central European capital, Peter Demetz focuses on the six years that Prague was under German occupation in World War II: 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. Demetz was a boy living in Prague then, and here he joins his objective chronicle of the city under Nazi control with his personal memories of that period, expertly interweaving a superb account of the German authorities’ diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague’s evolving resistance and underground opposition. The result is a complex, continually surprising book filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenge of occupation and of war.
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The book is a collection of essays on Czech literary and other topics. These are interspersed with autobiographic segments describing the author's and his parent's life in Brno, Prague, Berlin and the Sudetenland in the 1930s and 1940's. To better distinguish essays from autobiographic segments the latter are printed in italics throughout the volume. As reflected in the essays, the author's main interest and expertise appears to lie in the activity and writings of Jewish-Bohemian journalists between ... Read More
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Writing style is all over the place and hard to follow. He jumps back and forth in time and mixes stories and facts in an odd way that is best described as choppy.
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This is quite an unique study of the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in general, and Prague in particular, in that the author, a renown Yale professor of Germanic studies, lived through the events he describes as a child and young man. For those who have visited Prague, a truly remarkable city, it is nothing short of a miracle that so much of its pre-war architecture has survived until today in the Czech Republic. One bonus of the book is the author fills us in on the combined Czech-Jewish-German dimensions ... Read More
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A selective history, interwoven with personal reminisces by the author, of a great European city under the thumb of the Nazis. Highly recommended.
Peter Demetz is both a cultural scholar and a witness. His compelling personal story, as a youthful civilian in and around wartime Prague, unfolds in scattered places throughout this book in beautiful, truthful, and understated prose.
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