Author Description

The Czech Republic, a new state which appeared on the map of Europe on 1st January 1993, has historical roots which reach back as far as the 9th and 10th centuries. In the modern age, from 1526, the Czech Lands were part of the Habsburg Monarchy, and after the 1st World War, part of Czechoslovakia. The Czech people, settled behind the ramparts of the borderland mountains in "the heart of Europe", have lived through all the upheavals of modern European history. This book is an attempt to describe the path that led, in the 20th Century, to the founding of an independent state.