České paměti - Dobrodružný život právníka, profesora právnické fakulty a kněze a jeho rodičů v posledních 120 letech – Tretera Jiří Rajmund (2022)

The memoir of Professor Jiří Rajmund Tretera from the Faculty of Law at Charles University recounts three professions of his life: lawyer, university teacher, and Catholic priest. The author details his adventurous life and that of his parents in thirteen parts of a family chronicle. Events are arranged chronologically, guiding us from the youth of his father and mother and the history of their families through the period of the First Republic, his childhood during and after the occupation, adolescence during the communist terror, a complicated path to studying law, military service, work as a corporate lawyer from 1964 to 1990, life in the underground church from 1977 to 1989, and up to the most recent times from 1990 to 2022. A captivating gallery of the author's relatives, friends, and acquaintances with various fates creates a modern "Kosmas Chronicle," which, through the story of one exceptional person and his loved ones, represents the history of the Czechs from the end of the 19th century to the present day. The reader will appreciate the author's remarkable memory and his thought-provoking and often humorous observations, as well as his great openness in the interest of truth, with a bold approach of "let the chips fall where they may!"