The Fall and Rise of a Nation: Czechoslovakia, 1938-1941

by Edvard Beneš

From Czechoslovakia's former president comes a unique account of the last two weeks of September 1938, leading up to the Munich pact. Based on a newly discovered and previously unpublished manuscript and augmented with wartime speeches and other important documents, this book recounts the painful experience of the Sudeten Crisis and the formation of a Benes's government-in-exile. Writing not from a pro-Soviet perspective - which he might have done in 1945 - but from the perspective of mid-1941, Benes had put his hope in the decisive victory of the British Empire over Nazi Germany. Milan Hauner provides a detailed introduction and critical annotation based on information found from original manuscripts.

320 pages, Hardcover

First published June 2, 2004

About the author

Edvard Beneš, Czechoslovakian politician, served from 1918 as foreign minister and from 1935 as president until the German occupation in 1938 forced him to flee the country; on his return, people again elected him 1946, but he refused to sign a Communist constitution in 1948 and afterward resigned.

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