122 reviews for:

Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948

Madeleine K. Albright

4.03 AVERAGE

ksks2525's review against another edition

4.0

Audiobook - Her voice still sounds so familiar and reassuring. I loved that she shared her process of study of this previously unknown part of her own past. Very difficult details, of course, but so critically important and M.A. walks us through the facts raising all the right questions.

johnny_the_ginger's review against another edition

4.0

Ugh this is so good, interesting, and sad. I’ve never heard much about Czechoslovakia during and after WWII. The Nazi’s and Soviets wrecked this region and killed so many people.

wenders23's review against another edition

4.0

This read more like a history book than a memoir. I did appreciate the narrative because I do think I have a gap in knowledge when it comes to this period in time.

tranquilitycase's review

3.0

Fairly interesting, but it took a while to get there. The ending was so abrupt I thought I was missing a disc, but my library shows there are only 12 discs. I would only recommend this to serious WWII history buffs, or big fans of Madeleine Albright.

tequilahorcrux's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

tinahudak's review against another edition

5.0

*Madeleine Albright’s Prague Winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948,/i>. I cannot recommend this memoir enough, especially as we face our daily struggles. The courage and dedication of those within these pages is inspiring. I read this alongside a fiction book, Prague Sonata which gives a sense of the city during tenuous times.

allisonq's review against another edition

5.0

Like a lot of people this was a bit different that I expected with a title that says it is a "personal story". It is really a history of the Czech and Czechoslovakian people in the first half of the 20th century and I wasn't mad about it. The history of the interwar period and WWII in Europe has been my personal interest for years but I realized how much history I wasn't aware of from other countries' perspectives. I knew Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia but I had never considered what it looked like from the Czechoslovakian perspective so hearing Madeleine describe it was very interesting. I just found it all so fascinating. The only small thing is that I didn't always love her as a narrator of the audiobook. I think she's the only one who could have done it but it is hard to narrate an audiobook well and I think that showed at some points.

jheher's review

3.0

I like most of the book but there were times when I felt it was hard to follow and went too deeply into some of the Czech political issues.

aroush's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0

mollyisfullybooked's review against another edition

4.0

Given that former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright is one of my personal heroes and that I know admittedly nothing about Czechoslovakia during WWII, this seemed like an incredibly interesting book. I was not wrong. I love the WWII time period, and this reads like a historical fiction book. Except none of it is fictitious. Great read.