czechoslovakia

Filip M?ller discusses his experiences working in the gassing installations and crematoria at Auschwitz where he was imprisoned from April 1942 to November 1944.

A prince's release from a nocturnal spell is endangered by his wife's disobedience unless she wears out twelve iron sandals, in the first of these seven Czech folk and fairy tales.

Madeleine Albright served as America's sixty-fourth secretary of state from 1997 to 2001 and she was part of the generation that lived through World War II. Before she was twelve, her native country, Czechoslovakia, was invaded by the Nazis. As her family fled, Madeleine experienced terror, the art of survival, and the bomb shelters of London. Many decades after the war she found out about her family's Jewish heritage.

Presents the diary entries of a young woman living in the Jewish ghetto of Theresienstadt, a model concentration camp designed by the Nazis to show to the Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations.

A collection of eight humorous folktales, including "The Terrible Black Snake's Revenge" from Czechoslovakia, and "The Short Horse" from the United States.

An anthology of six folk tales of love and friendship.

Petra Nemcova recounts her experiences during the tsunami of 2004, which trapped Petra in the branches of a palm tree with a shattered pelvis for eight hours and killed her boyfriend, photographer Simon Atlee.

A fictional account of the escape of Jozef Gab??k and Jan Kub? from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to England where they are recruited by the British secret service to assassinate Nazi Reinhard Heydrich.

A mixture of prose, diary entries, and poetry relating the author's experiences in the concentration camp Theresienstadt.