Czechmate

Автор книги: Michael Condé-Jahnel id книги: 1619511 Оценка: 0.0 Голосов: 0 Отзывы, комментарии: 0 616,04 руб. (6,01$) Читать книгу Купить и скачать книгу Электронная книга Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары Правообладатель и/или издательство: Ingram Дата добавления в каталог КнигаЛит: 4 сентября 2020, 13:31 ISBN: 9781922405807 Скачать фрагмент в формате fb2 fb2.zip Возрастное ограничение: 0+ Оглавление Отрывок из книги

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This story is a microcosm of millions of others, a love story of two people seeking to be reunited after years of separation. My mother's death. The sudden discovery of family papers. My father's unfinished manuscript. Her account of a perilous escape from our native Sudetenland. My father's writings chronicle the rising specter of nationalism. How his libertarian views became disillusioned with ties of other family members to Berlin's inner circle. Hitler's occupation of native soil. My father's near fatal injuries in the Italian campaign. My mother's and my survival were dependent upon her wits and ingenuity – the advancing Red Army, Czech retribution, refugee camps. In an ironic twist of fate, this story begins during the Great Depression and outbreak of WW II. It's first rough outline conceived during the Great Recession of 2008/2009. Finally published some ten years later during the world's worst health and financial crisis in modern history. May my children, their children and, indeed, the worlds' children be spared many years of misery to come.

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For Stéphane and Natasha

Also, a special thank you to Brian Ferstman for his advice on developmental and structural areas of the book, which provided valuable counsel.

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I knew that despite his fervent nationalistic deportment, my father was basically a good and honorable man. His stern and rigid demeanor seemed to be as much a product of the times and environment we were in as anything else. In the face of simple human interaction, he had the capacity to show his other side. For my part, I refused to become politically engaged. I wanted my life to take a course of pursuing individual thought and liberty, free from the dogma of narrow ideologies. A course, where I would not be told, whether I could talk to Czechs or count Jews among my friends.

One day, the elegant wife of a well known local industrialist came into the store. With her was her attractive daughter Hedwig, who left an indelible mark on me. I had not seen her in more than a year and was stunned by her transformation from giggling high school senior to a young woman with poise. Her mother temporarily distracted, I mustered the courage to ask her for a secret rendezvous. Her grandfather Benjamin Simon had been a prominent town magistrate and her family did not subscribe to the nationalistic German fervor unfolding around us; a liaison between us would not have had her or my father’s blessing.

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