04421cam a2200781 4500 468417203 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780451495808 0451495802 B07911KHX6 Amazon fba09cc9-f229-495f-97fe-74efe4b2c75a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 539841 539841 539841 3879323 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Eisen, Norman L., 1961- The Last Palace [Libby eBook] : Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House. Crown, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 16MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. gifts for history buffs. jewish history books. shirley temple black. cd books for adults. history buff gifts. velvet revolution. European History. historical books. autobiographies. genealogy gifts. family history. Czechoslovakia. Czech Republic. jewish history. Eastern Europe. World History. Autobiography. prague spring. history books. history gifts. World War II. 20th Century. Nazi history. Jewish books. biographies. World War 2. Ambassador. Biography. Holocaust. History. Prague. hitler. WWII. HTML:<b>A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest houses—and the lives of its occupants</b><br /> <br /> When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence's forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past.<br /> <br /> From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe's, and <i>The Last Palace</i> chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built 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.<br /> <br /> Weaving in the life of Eisen's own mother to demonstrate how those without power and privilege moved through history, <i>The Last Palace</i> tells the dramatic and surprisingly cyclical tale of the triumph of liberal democracy. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Judaica. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fba09cc9-f229-495f-97fe-74efe4b2c75a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fba09cc9-f229-495f-97fe-74efe4b2c75a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fba09cc9-f229-495f-97fe-74efe4b2c75a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)