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1	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain more books like this by Peter Sis add to wishlist In his most personal work to date, award-winning author Peter Ss offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. see all copies from $3.19! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The good soldier Svejk and his fortunes in the World War more books like this by Jaroslav Hasek add to wishlist An epic novel satirizing Austro-Hungarian society in the early years of the 20th century. The idiotic soldier Svejk serves as a kind of Czech Everyman: appearing both servile and uncomprehending to outsiders, he in fact has sharper view of the world than anyone around him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-68 more books like this by Heda Kovaly add to wishlist Heda Margolius Kovaly's steady gaze at the lives caught up in Czechoslovakia's tragic fate under the Nazis and then during the Stalin era illuminates the chaotic life of a nation. Kovaly was deported to concentration camps, escaped from a death march, nearly starved in the post-war years, only to be shattered by her husband's conviction (in the ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $12.14!
4	Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers more books like this by Filip Muller add to wishlist This work offers a shattering account of an Auschwitz prisoner who worked for more than two years in the gassing installations and crematoria and lived to tell about it. see all copies from $5.53! new only from $8.91! \| first editions \| SVS
5	I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 more books like this by Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by), Vaclav Havel (Afterword by) add to wishlist Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations. see all copies from $7.67! new only from $10.56! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Hansi: The Girl Who Loved the Swastika more books like this by Maria Ann Hirschmann add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $58.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Killing of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich more books like this by Callum MacDonald add to wishlist It has been said that if responsibility for the Nazi camps can be laid at the feet of any one man, that man is Reinhard Heydrich. Retribution for his violent death included several thousand executions and two villages being razed to the ground. Based on previously untouched archive material and interviews with surviving members of SOE and Czech ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Josef Sudek: Poet of Prague more books like this by Josef Sudek, Anna Farova add to wishlist Here is the most comprehensive compilation of Josef Sudek's photographs, providing the rare opportunity to see for the first time the masterworks of one of photography's greatest artists. see all copies from $14.90! new only from $44.20! \| first editions
9	Far Country more books like this by Nevil Shute add to wishlist A young English woman leaves her aging parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance when Jennifer is called back to England. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $11.06! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1905) more books like this by Sir John Mandeville add to wishlist Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in the lands beyond' countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies. Although Marco Polo's slightly earlier ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11	I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust more books like this by Inge Auerbacher add to wishlist Inga Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and she and her parents were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. The Auerbachers defied death for three years until they were freed. This story allows even the youngest middle reader to understand the Holocaust. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Utz more books like this by Bruce Chatwin add to wishlist Bruce Chatwin's bestselling novel traces the fortunes of the enigmatic and unconventional hero, Kaspar Utz. Despite the restrictions of Cold War Czechoslovakia, Utz asserts his individuality through his devotion to his precious collection of Meissen porcelain. Although Utz is permitted to leave the country each year, and considers defecting each ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Brundibar more books like this by Professor Tony Kushner (Retold by), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator), Hans Krasa add to wishlist Based on a Czech opera for children that was performed 55 times by the children of the Terezin Nazi concentration camp, this tale of two children bullied by a bellowing hurdy-gurdy grinder is now told in this storybook. Illustrations. see all copies from $2.16! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Summer Meditations more books like this by Vaclav Havel add to wishlist In a work written while he was president of Czechoslovakia, Havel offers profound reflections upon the nature and practice of politics throughout the world, and extends a stirring call for a moral political system, a responsible free market, and a statecraft that honors human needs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.30! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 more books like this by Vaclav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator) add to wishlist The 25 years' worth of essays, letters, interviews, and reportage collected in this historic volume portray Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright with the courage to criticize his country's dictator to his election as President of Czechslovakia. hero".--Kirkus Reviews. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala more books like this by Vaclav Havel add to wishlist In interviews that took place in the mid-'80s with journalist Karel Hvizdala, Vaclav Havel discusses his boyhood, his life in the theater, and his role as a politically engaged writer. Havel was imprisoned three times in the '70s by the regime in his country, and these interviews are the first time he discusses the experience in depth in book form ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.42! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Best of Czech Cooking more books like this by Peter Trnka add to wishlist Now expanded with 3 new chapters on Pork, Mushrooms, and Drinks, this popular Hippocrene cookbook is better than ever. Czech cuisine emphasizes delicious soups, salads, dumplings, hearty meat dishes, vegetables and desserts, with recipes that rely on the subtle flavours of fresh ingredients. This new edition includes Vepro-knedlo-zelo -- a classic ... see all copies from $10.36! new only from $10.36! \| SVS
18	The Rusyns more books like this by Alexander Bonkalo, Sandor Bonkalo add to wishlist This is the best general introduction to the history and culture of the Carpatho-Rusyns or Ruthenians, a minority living today within the U.S.S.R and Czechoslovakia. A native Ruthenian and renowed scholar in the field, Bonkalo provides information on the group's origins, historiography, ethnography, culture, literature, folklore, religion and ... see all copies from $7.05! new only from $90.41! \| SVS
19 view cover	I Served the King of England more books like this by Bohumil Hrabal add to wishlist By the author of "Closely Observed Trains", "The Small Town Where Time Stopped" and "My Brilliant Solitude", this novel is the story of a Czech waiter in the 30s and 40s, set against the backdrop of the country's history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.77! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia more books like this by Benjamin Frommer add to wishlist National Cleansing examines the prosecution of over one hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution, this book provides a new perspective on Czechoslovakia's transition from Nazi occupation to Stalinist rule in ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
21 view cover	Music in Terezín 1941-1945 more books like this by Jo'za Karas add to wishlist When Adolf Hitler created the model camp at Theresienstadt (Terezin in Czech) for the better-known of Europe's Jewish transportees, he gathered together many of the continent's finest musicians. This examination of the associations, the compositions, the performances, and above all, the people in Terezin accentuates the roles the active musical ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $39.28! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Engineer of Human Souls more books like this by Josef Skvorecky add to wishlist The Engineer of Human Souls is a labyrinthine comic novel that investigates the journey and plight of novelist Danny Smiricky, a Czech immigrant to Canada. As the novel begins, he is a professor of American literature at a college in Toronto. Out of touch with his young students, and hounded by the Czech secret police, Danny is let loose to roam ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Alfons Mucha, 1860-1939: Master of Art Nouveau more books like this by Renate Ulmer add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
24 view cover	To the Castle and Back more books like this by Vaclav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator) add to wishlist In this intimate, illuminating memoir, Havel recollects the pivotal experiences and ideas of his remarkable life a writer, dissident, and statesman. He writes with eloquence and candor about his transition from playwright to politician, and the challenges of governing a young democracy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	A Time to Speak more books like this by Helen Lewis add to wishlist On 15 March 1939, Germany troops entered Prague and for Czechoslovakian Jews the terror began. This is the story of one of the survivors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| first editions \| SVS

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