Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s

by Igor Lukes

Book Overview

The Munich crisis of 1938, in which Great Britain and France decided to appease Hitler's demands to annex the Sudentenland, has provoked a vast amount of historical writing. The era has been thoroughly examined from the perspectives of Germans, French, and British political establishments. But historians have had, until now, only a vague understanding of the roles played by the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, the country whose very existence was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195102673
• ISBN13: 9780195102673
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"