Beschreibung
In the first peaceful weeks of 1945, Czechoslovak soldiers who had spent years fighting abroad for their country’s freedom began returning home. Eight men who had paid the ultimate price in that struggle also returned, but only as unnamed heroes on a series of postage stamps printed in London during the war. Anyone who has ever collected Czechoslovak stamps has encountered this London series and may have wondered who the determined faces in military uniforms belonged to. Karel Černý’s book tells the life stories of these eight courageous men and includes two hundred historical photographs carefully selected from archival holdings and private collectors’ collections. Alongside the well-known hero of Sokolovo, Otakar Jaroš, pilot Alois Vašátko and paratrooper Jozef Gabčík, readers meet the stories of pilots Jiří Král and Stanislav Zimprich, North African desert fighters František Adámek and Pravoslav Řídký, and military physician Miroslav Novák. The contents are in Czech.
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Author: Černý Karel
Language: Czech
Publication date: 28. April 2017
Manufacturer: TVÁŘE, s.r.o.
Genres: Books, Fiction, Politicians, Biographies and autobiographies
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 140
ISBN/EAN: 9788090662131