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A Revealing Book about the Post-war Lives of the Czechoslovak Airmen of the RAF

Summary/Abstract: Kudrna, Ladislav. Jeden ze zapomenutych mužů: Plukovnik letectva Petr Uruba, pilot 311. československe bombardovaci perutě, jako průvodce ‘kratkym’ 20. stoletim. Prague: Ustav pro studium totalitnich režimů, 2008, 302 pp. Taking a biographical approach, the author of the book under review, which tells the story of a Czechoslovak airman in the Royal Air Force, uses this publication as an opportunity to depict the broader historical panorama. Though he presents the pre-war and wartime events concisely, he manages, the reviewer argues, to present a comprehensive analysis of the situation in the Czechoslovak Armed Forces and, partly, also in society in the post-war period. The reviewer considers the book’s greatest contribution to be the information it provides about collaboration between the former RAF airmen and the Czechoslovak State Security Forces (StB) and the airmen’s rehabilitation in the 1960s.

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