Potlučený lev - Devatenáct akčních příběhů o zrodu, životě a konci Masarykovy republiky – Čech Zdeněk (2018)

Whoever is the master of the Czechs is the master of Europe!” This is supposedly what the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck once said, and history has largely proven him right. The Habsburg Empire, which collapsed at the end of World War I, could not survive without our land, and both Hitler's Germans and Stalin's Russians longed to seize it... However, before that, the time came when Czechoslovakia was born here on October 28, 1918. A state that had its strength, successes, and hope. And when they later asked British Prime Minister Lloyd George at the peace conference in Paris who actually gained the most from the world war, he smiled and said, “Who? Why, Professor Masaryk!” We often do not even realize how exceptional Masaryk's life was. A scientist and politician who had successfully fought against anti-Semites and managed to prevent a mass judicial murder, he headed into exile in his retirement age to fight for his dream – the Czechoslovak Republic. In the end, he triumphed and returned home as its president. This book is not just about T. G. Masaryk, although it is also about him. The battered lion here is not Masaryk, but the Czech fate since the time of the Jubilee Exhibition in Prague (1891), where the Czechs already realized their possibilities and significance. The narrative then unfolds through the era of our first, Masaryk's republic with…