Angela Merkelová Svoboda – Merkel Angela (2024)

Memoirs 1954-2021 Political Memoirs of the Decade Life in East Germany, memories of Prague, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany, Obama, Trump, and Biden, Putin and Zelensky, the annexation of Crimea, climate conferences, economic challenges, COVID, the war in Ukraine… Over 90 photographs from the author's personal archive "You don't have to love or admire this politician, but it's definitely worth reading the book. Merkel was involved in everything significant that has happened in world politics over the past decades. In the first part of the book, she also reflects on her earlier past when she lived in East Germany – behind the Iron Curtain. She recalls her time in Prague in the 1980s when she was completing her doctorate." Martin Vopěnka, owner of the Práh publishing house Angela Merkel led the German government for sixteen years, shaping German, European, and international politics and society through her actions and positions. In her memoirs, she looks back on life in two German states – in East Germany until 1990 and in reunified Germany since 1990. How did she, a woman from the East, manage to rise to the leadership of the CDU and become the first Chancellor of reunified Germany? And how did she come to be among the most powerful leaders of the Western world? What inspired her? ...