My crazy century
Czech writer Ivan Klima masterfully recounts, first, what it was like for him as a Jewish child confronting with his family the inhumanities of the Theresienstadt concentration camp situated at the edge of their hometown, Prague. Then, more fully, he painstakingly recalls what it was like for him an...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Czech writer Ivan Klima masterfully recounts, first, what it was like for him as a Jewish child confronting with his family the inhumanities of the Theresienstadt concentration camp situated at the edge of their hometown, Prague. Then, more fully, he painstakingly recalls what it was like for him and his countrymen after the Nazi thugs were driven out by the Soviet Army and replaced for four decades by the Communist thugs |
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| Beschreibung: | First published in Czech as two volumes: Moje šílené století and Moje šílené století II by Nakladatelství Academia, Prague Machine generated contents note: Part I -- Part II -- Ideological Murderers -- Utopias -- The Victors and the Defeated -- The Party -- Revolution---Terror and Fear -- Abused Youth -- The Necessity of Faith -- Dictators and Dictatorship -- The Betrayal of the Intellectuals -- On Propaganda -- Dogmatists and Fanatics -- Weary Dictators and Rebels -- Dreams and Reality -- Life in Subjugation -- Occupation, Collaboration, and Intellectual Riffraff -- Self-Criticism -- (Secret Police) |
| Beschreibung: | 534 S. |
| ISBN: | 0802121705 9780802121707 978-0-8021-2170-7 |