Publicado por Granta Books, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Reino Unido
PAP. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Publicado por Granta Books (UK), 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Soft Cover. Condición: new.
Publicado por Granta Books, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irlanda
Condición: New. 2011. Paperback. A searingly honest and moving memoir of a young woman's political awakening and disillusionment, and a gripping first-person account of life in Communist Czechoslovakia. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BM; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262. . . . . .
Publicado por Granta Books, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 208 pages. 8.50x5.31x0.67 inches. In Stock.
Publicado por Granta Books, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, Reino Unido
Paperback / softback. Condición: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. A searingly honest and moving memoir of a young woman's political awakening and disillusionment, and a gripping first-person account of life in Communist Czechoslovakia.
Publicado por Granta Books, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: New. 2011. Paperback. A searingly honest and moving memoir of a young woman's political awakening and disillusionment, and a gripping first-person account of life in Communist Czechoslovakia. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVK; 3JJH; 3JJPG; BM; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 262. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Publicado por Granta Books, United Kingdom, London, 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Jo Langer and her husband Oscar were committed communists; she Hungarian, he Slovakian. During the Second World War the couple, both Jewish, escaped to America. Most members of their extended family were murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, they returned to Czechoslovakia to help build communism. She worked for state exports in Bratislava; he was an economist working for the Central Committee. In 1951 Oscar Langer was arrested and detained as part of the anti-Semitic purge of the Communist Party that culminated in the infamous Slanksky trials. He was subjected to solitary confinement, threats against his family, unbearable cold and hunger, anti-Semitic abuse and beatings. In the end, he submitted. In a statement dictated by his interrogators he said, 'I confess that I am an important link in the anti-state conspiracy of Zionists and Jewish bourgeois nationalists'. Jo Langer lost her job, and was exiled to the countryside. In Convictions, she vividly describes trying to her protect her two daughters and scrape a living, surviving the loss of her husband, her place in society and her faith in communism. Oscar Langer died shortly after his release from prison. Jo Langer left Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring in 1968, and went into exile in Sweden. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Publicado por Granta Books (UK), 2011
ISBN 10: 1847083382 ISBN 13: 9781847083388
Librería: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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