The Last Palace – Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
General:
Name: The Last Palace – Europe’s Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
Format: epub
Size: 16.05 MB
Book:
Title: The Last Palace
Author: Norman Eisen
Language: English
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Judaica, Nonfiction
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
ISBN: 9780451495808
Total pages: 416
Description:
A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa’s greatest houses-and the lives of its occupants
When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador’s residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the Holocaust, he was startled to discover swastikas hidden beneath the furniture in his new home. These symbols of Nazi Germany were remnants of the residence’s forgotten history, and evidence that we never live far from the past.
From that discovery unspooled the twisting, captivating tale of four of the remarkable people who had called this palace home. Their story is Europe’s, and The Last Palace chronicles the upheavals that transformed the continent over the past century. There was the optimistic Jewish financial baron, Otto Petschek, who built the palace after World War I as a statement of his faith in democracy, only to have that faith…
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