Legionáři v Národním shromáždění Republiky československé – Stehlík Eduard (2019)

After the successful book by Eduard Stehlík "Jan Kubiš – nothing can stop me, not even the worst...", the publishing house TVÁŘE, in collaboration with the Czechoslovak Legionary Community, presents his next work, which is dedicated to the very beginnings of Czechoslovak statehood and the historical moments that preceded it. Moments that played a crucial role in the struggle for the independence of the Czech and Slovak nations under the leadership of Professor Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Dr. Edvard Beneš, and General Milan Rastislav Štefánik. It is well known that this trio of exceptional men has enduring merits for the creation of our state. However, in their shadow, tens of thousands of our legionaries who fought for our freedom with weapons in hand remain unjustly overlooked. The fact that many of them later actively participated in political life as members of governments, lawmakers, diplomats, or high-ranking state officials is known to only a small handful of insiders today. The fates of thirty men recorded in this book begin in the legions, but the author also carefully follows their further involvement in building a democratic state on the floor of the National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic and does not forget the years of World War II, during which many of them became...