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The Last Palace - Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague (Paperback)
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The Last Palace - Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague (Paperback)
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For any reader of Edmund de Waal's THE HARE WITH THE AMBER EYES or
Erik Larson's IN THE GARDENS OF BEASTS, Norman L Eisen's THE LAST
PALACE tells the story of the tumultuous past 100 years in Europe
as seen from the most beautiful house in Prague, the Petschek
Villa. The Petschek Villa was Norman L Eisen's home during his
tenure as US ambassador. In his remarkable book, he details the
colourful lives of five of the palace's residents: - the optimistic
Jewish financial baron who built the Petschek Villa after World War
I as a statement of his faith in Europe, and who died of a broken
heart after Europe brutally rejected him, his house, and his hopes
- the cultured, complex German general who occupied the palace
during World War II, ultimately saving the house and Prague itself
from destruction - the American ambassador and Holocaust hero who
became obsessed with the property after the war, acquiring it for
the US, though neglecting to fight the Communist takeover of
Czechoslovakia in the process - his successor 40 years later, an
iconic former child star who used her showbiz wiles, with the house
as her stage, to help the Velvet Revolution succeed in restoring
Czechoslovak democracy - and the author, Norman L Eisen, the son of
a Czech Auschwitz survivor, who moved into the palace once seized
by the Nazis and found himself battling the lingering ghosts of
European intolerance The Last Palace weaves a tapestry that is as
vast and as intricate as any that hang in the palace itself. It is
also an exploration of the wider themes in international history
that have triggered three global wars (two hot and one cold), and
threatens the peace of our world today.
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