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Ted Dettweiler
Mar 28, 2016 rated it really liked it
Memoir of a Czech writer who lives through a WWII concentration camp (as a child) and then four decades of communist party control of Czechoslovakia. A must-read for anyone who, like me, has an interest in what life was like behind the Iron Curtain.
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