Under a Cruel Star : A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

English

ISBN: 0841913773

EAN: 9780841913776

Category: History / Europe / Eastern

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Incorporated

Release Date: 01/01/1997

Synopsis: Heda Margolius Kov?lys steady gaze at the lives caught up in Czechoslovakias tragic fate under the Nazis and then during the Stalin era illuminates the chaotic life of a nation. Kov?ly was deported to concentration camps, escaped from a death march, nearly starved in the post-war years, only to be shattered by her husbands conviction (in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial) and his execution. Resonant with lyricism, this gripping memoir is uplifting even in the midst of horror.

Under a Cruel Star : A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Width: 8.46 inches

Length: 5.51 inches

Weight: 8.75 oz

Pages: 192