Overview
- Summary
- "A memoir describing the impact of World War II and the Cold War on a Czechoslovakian boy. It is written from the perspective of Charles Novacek, born in Ozdany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) in 1928, who actively participated with his family in the Czech Resistance against the Nazis and Communists from the age of eleven to twenty. After escaping his homeland in 1948, Novacek fled to Germany, then Venezuela and was finally able to immigrate with his wife and children to the United States in 1956 where he became an American citizen and established a successful professional engineering career in Detroit, Michigan"--Book website.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Detroit, MI : Ten21 Press, [2012]
©2012 - Locale
- Czechoslovakia
United States - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258).
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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http://www.charlesnovacekbooks.com/
- ISBN
- 9780985415105
098541510X
9780985415112
0985415118 - Physical Description
- x, 261 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
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