| Description |
xii, 274 pages 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Day of Occupation -- Ch. 2. The Beginnings of the Protectorate: 1939-41 -- Ch. 3. Terror and Resistance -- Ch. 4. The End of the Protectorate |
| Summary |
"With this book, the scholar Peter Demetz focuses on the six short years when Prague was under German occupation in World War II - a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was a boy then, living in Prague as a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories, and here he joins his objective chronicle of what happened to his beloved city during the war with his personal memories of that period: from the bitter morning of March 15, 1939, when German troops marched to Hradcany Castle and Hitler arrived from Berlin to set his seal on the Nazi takeover of the Czechoslovak government, until the liberation of Bohemia in April 1945, after long seasons of unimaginable suffering and pain." |
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"Demetz expertly interweaves a superb account of the German authorities' diplomatic, financial, and military machinations with a brilliant description of Prague's evolving resistance and underground opposition. Along with his private experiences, he offers the heretofore untold history of an effervescent, unstoppable Prague whose urbane heart went on beating despite the deportations, murders, cruelties, and violence - a Prague that kept its German - and Czech - language theaters open, its fabled film studios functioning, its young people in school and at work, and its newspapers on press. This complex, continually surprising book is filled with rare human detail and warmth, the gripping story of a great city meeting the dual challenges of occupation and of war."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Demetz, Peter, 1922-
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Czech Republic -- Prague.
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| SUBJECT |
Prague (Czech Republic) -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004003776 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate, 1939-1945) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84114285
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| LC no. |
2007046188 |
| ISBN |
9780374531560 paperback |
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9780374281267 cased |
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0374281262 cased |
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