Tři odboje generála Kudláčka
Three Times in the Resistance: General Čeněk Kudláček

Summary/Abstract: Jiránek, Tomáš: Šéf štábu Obrany národa: Neklidný život divizního generála Čeňka Kudláčka (Paměť. Odboj, vol. 76). Prague: Academia 2015, 417 pp., ISBN 978-80-200-2354-4.The book under review is a biography of Čeněk Kudláček (1896–1967), a general and military attaché, who fought in the First World War as a member of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia and France, was in the resistance at home and abroad during the Second World War (sent to gain the support of Czechs and Slovaks living in Canada and Brazil), and was involved in intelligence work as an exile following the Communist takeover in February 1948. The reviewer focuses on Kudláček’s year on a diplomatic mission to Bolivia in the mid-1930s, a country that Czechoslovakia supported militarily in the war against Paraguay. On the whole, he appreciates that the book is both highly readable and truly scholarly.

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