biographies and memoirs(51)

Chvíle s Janem Masarykem

Soukup, Lumír

Paměti

Mařatka, Zdeněk

In his memoirs, this world-famous gastroenterologist encapsulates his life and scholarly experience, recollects his father and presents h...

Korespondence Josefa Pekaře a Kamila Krofty

Čechurová, Jana

Josef Pekař and Kamil Krofta ranked among the leading Czech historians. Their correspondence clearly shows the differences in their appro...

Historik v měnícím se světě

Polišenský, Josef

Memoires by an important historien of the Czech and world history Prof. Josef Polišenský (1915-2001). The author describes his personal a...

Válečné deníky Jana Opočenského

Němeček, Jan – Čechurová, Jana – Kuklík, Jan – Čechura, Jaroslav

The London diaries of the historian and diplomat Jan Opočenský represent an every-day written description of the period from June 1940 to...

Josef Pekař. Život a dílo.

Hanzal, Josef

[Josef Pekař. His Life and Work] This book by Josef Hanzal describes the life and work of an eminent Czech historian. The author follows ...

Ohlédnutí za padesáti lety ve službě českému dějepisectví

Kavka, František

Looking Back over the 50 Years Committed to Czech Historiography A concise autobiography by one of the best-known postwar historians, th...

Edvard Beneš: Politická biografie českého demokrata I

Dejmek, Jindřich

This biography of the second Czechoslovak president is divided into two parts. The first part presents Edvard Beneš in 1884-1935, that is...

Revolucionář a diplomat (1884–1935)

Dějiny chirurgie v Čechách

Weiss, Vilém

The book was originally published in 1891 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the imperial and royal general hospital and opening...

Edvard Beneš: Politická biografie českého demokrata II

Dejmek, Jindřich

The second part of the political biography of Edvard Beneš covers the period from 1935, when this politician, having matured both politic...

Prezident republiky a vůdce národního odboje (1935–1948)

Můj deník z první světové války

Tobolka, Zdeněk – Kučera, Martin (ed.)

The diary of Zdeněk Václav Tobolka, a pro-Austrian member of parliament for the Young Czech Party, and during the First Republic a Social...

Paměti Františka Jana Vaváka, souseda a rychtáře Milčického z let 1770 - 1816

Vavák, Jan František

František Jan Vavák (1741-1816) was the most important of the Czech peasant amateur writers. Lacking any formal education, through self-s...