The Masaryks: The Making of Czechoslovakia

In this biography of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), the founder of the Czechoslovak republic, and of his son Jan Masaryk (1886-1948), who became foreign minister in the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London during World War II, the author retraces their lives against the dramatic background of the history of Central and Eastern Europe.

"Zeman is sympathetic to his subjects but completely honest in presenting them as men, not myths." — John C. Campbell, Foreign Affairs

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