Benes & Masaryk: Czechoslovakia - Czechoslovakia

Informationen zum Autor Dr Peter Neville is a Research Fellow at Kingston University. He was previously Senior Lecturer in 20th-century European history and war studies at Wolverhampton University, and Tutor in history and international studies at Birkbeck College. His publications include Hitler and Appeasement: The British Attempts to Prevent Second World War (2006), Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Neville Henderson 1937-9 (2000), studies of Churchill and Mussolini, and Russia: A Complete History (2003). Klappentext This book examines how the Paris Peace Conference sowed the seeds of Czechoslovakia's later destruction in the 1930s. Zusammenfassung Tomas Masaryk, a Czech professor of philosophy and a future leader of his people, was hard at work within a month of the outbreak of war lobbying in Paris and London for an independent Bohemia, still a major component of the Austrian Empire within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, which would incorporate the predominantly Slovak regions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Prelude Part I: The Life and the Land 1. Historic Czechoslovakia 2. Masaryk and Benes at War Part II: The Paris Peace Conference 3. Building for the Peace Conference 4. A Nation is Born 5. Consequences Part III: The Legacy 6. The Founders 7. A Faraway Country 8. Czechoslovakia Betrayed Notes Chronology Bibliography Picture Sources Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Neville, Neville Peter
• Publisher: Haus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9781905791729
• ISBN: 978-1-905791-72-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Makers of the Modern World; Makers of the Modern World; Makers of the Modern World: Th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Former Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia