The last palace
| Titel: | The last palace : Europe's extraordinary century through five lives and one house in Prague / Norman Eisen |
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| Veröffentlicht: | London : Headline Publishing Group, [2018] |
| Umfang: | ix, 403 Seiten : Illustrationen, 1 Karte ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| ISBN: | 9781472237293 ; 1472237293 ; 9781472237286 |
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There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron Otto Petschek, who build the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith shattered; Rudolf Toussaint, the cultured, compromised German general who occupied the palace during World War II, ultimately putting his life at risk to save the house and Prague itself from destruction; Laurence Steinhardt, the first postwar US ambassador, whose quixotic struggle to keep the palace out of Communist hands was paired with his pitched efforts to rescue the country from Soviet domination; and Shirley Temple Black, an eyewitness to the crushing of the 1968 Prague Spring by Soviet tanks, who determined to return to Prague and help end totalitarianism - and did just that as US ambassador in 1989. 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