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Beyond the Chestnut Trees

Beyond the Chestnut Trees

by Maria Bauer

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1986
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES

An absorbing, affectionate memoir of life between the wars in Prague. Bauer interweaves recollections of her youth in the city with a trip back after 40 years. With 19 black-and-white photographs. Bauer fled with her family to France and then to England during WWII, returning during the communist period.  (CZH53, $24.95)


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