Zdařilá česká monografie o odboji v okupované Evropě
Well-made Czech Monograph on the Resistance in Occupied Europe

Summary/Abstract: According to the reviewer, in this monograph, entitled "Evropa v plamenech: Protifašistický odboj v období druhé světové války se zaměřením na region střední Evropy" [Europe in Flames: Anti-fascist Resistance in the World War II with the Focus on the Central European Region] (Prague, Epocha 2019), Pavel Kopeček offers interested readers from the ranks of expert and lay public a clear, readable and high-quality summary of the findings on different forms of anti-Nazi resistance in the individual countries of occupied Europe in 1939–1945. While focusing primarily on the Central European countries (including Germany), which he describes in separate chapters, he tries to capture common features as well as differences in the existence of illegal movements in different countries and regions during World War II. He recalls the most important resistance movements, figures and operations, reflects upon the conditions and effectivity of the resistance in the occupied countries and does not shy away from its down sides. The reviewer pays special attention to the evaluation of the resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the context of other illegal movements.

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