About an End or a Beginning? Czech Historiography and Research into the Final Phase of the Second World War
About an End or a Beginning? Czech Historiography and Research into the Final Phase of the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: Hrbek, Jaroslav, Vít Smetana, Stanislav Kokoška, Vladimír Pilát, and Petr Hofman.Draze zaplacená svoboda: Osvobození Československa 1944–1945 [Freedom DearlyBought: The Liberation of Czechoslovakia 1944-1945], Vol. 1–2. Praha: Paseka,2009, 351 and 358 pp.;Kokoška, Stanislav et al. Nultá hodina? Československo na jaře 1945 ve strategických souvislostech [Zero Hour? Czechoslovakia in the Spring of 1945 in StrategicContexts]. (Edice Prostopravdy, vol. 2.) Praha: Euroslavica – Nadační fondangažovaných nestraníků, 2011, 256 pp. According to the reviewer, the two publications under review – Hrbek, Smetana etal.’s Draze zaplacená svoboda and Kokoška et al.’s Nultá hodina? – to a considerableextent combine the personal outlooks of their authors, a chronological delimitation,and an orientation to military, political and diplomatic history, but pay less attention to the circumstances in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia towards the end of the Second World War. The reviewer acquaints the reader with the individual chapters or articles in the publications, together with the authors’ principal arguments, and considers the context of historical research on the end of the Second World War and the transition to post-war conditions.

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