Igor Lukes: 2 books
On the Edge of the Cold War
American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In 1945, both the U.S. State Department and U.S. Intelligence saw Czechoslovakia as the master key to the balance of power in Europe and as a chessboard for the power-game between East and West. Washington believed that the political scene in Prague was the best available indicator of whether the...
Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler
The Diplomacy of Edvard Bene%s in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. The era has been thoroughly examined from the perspectives of Germans, French, and British political establishments. But historians...