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Describes Czechoslovakia's movement towards freedom, the invasion by Russian forces, and the subsequent return to repressive government
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About the Author
The first non-Communist American journalist accredited in Prague since 1956, Alan Levy lived there from 1967 to 1971, witnessing the downfall of the Stalinist dictator Antonin Novotny, the rise of Alexander Dubcek and the dawn of the "Prague Spring" of freedom, the summer of 1969's Warsaw Pact Invasion of a member nation and the "August Winter" of repression that ensued. He was educated at Brown University (A.B. 1953), was a prize winning reporter for the Louisville Courier-Journal (1953-1960), and an investigator for President Johnson's Carnegie Commission on Educational Television (1960-67).
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The Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 was a mournful mixture of remorseless plitical genocide and international embarassment. NATO was caught napping: the Czechs, who by then were gulping the freedom they had been taking in little sips, were bewildered by the ferocity of the Warsaw Pact invaders. Alan Levy lived through it all until he was forced to take his wife and two daughters to Vienna in January 1971. He has written what must be the definitive book on the rise and precipitous fall oz Czechoslovak hopes for regeneration and democratic socialism and written it with an intimacy of deatail and emotion that transcends mere journalistic reporting. --Newsweek
A beautifully written book whose vivid description and the personal commitment of the author make it comparable to John Reed's classic about the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days That Shook The World. Levy's book is longer and his observations more sophisticated, but they both have the merit of transmitting, with strong affection for the people and the country, the exhilaration of exhilarating times. --Jack Raymond, New York Times foreign correspondent and president of the Overseas Press Club of America
A thorough human view of the events that thrust Czechoslovakia into the conscience of mankind. This evocative book is a journalistic achievement...The swirling, calamitous invasion which Alan Levy handles with the elan of a historical novelist makes a vital document, not only about Czechoslovakia in particular, but about totalitarianism and repression in general. Both history and storytelling must be grateful that Levy got out from under the regime. --Nino Lo Bello, Los Angeles Times
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- PublisherSecond Chance Press
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0933256124
- ISBN 13 9780933256125
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages390
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