By turns harrowing and inspiring, \"Prague Winter\" is Madeleine Albright\'s account of her early life from 1937 to 1948, a dozen years that witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, World War II, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of communism, and the onset of the Cold War. Her experiences, and those of her family, provide a unique lens through which to view this tumultuous period in modern history. Moving from the thousand-year-old Prague Castle to the bomb shelters of London, from the desolate prison ghetto of Terezin to the war councils of Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt and Hitler, Albright reflects on her discovery of her family\'s Jewish heritage decades after the war, her Czech homeland\'s tangled history, and the stark moral choices faced by her parents, ordinary citizens, and the leaders of their generation.