Kiedy wybuchnie wojna? 1938. Studium kryzysu

A day-by-day chronicle of 1938, the final year of peace before the world war, seen from Czechoslovakia, which the great powers treated as a bit player in their own drama. The book moves through closed-door talks, test balloons and a war of nerves: the Sudeten German Party turns propaganda and the clumsiness of the foreign ministry in Prague to its advantage, and the Slovak prime minister Milan Hodža schemes against the country he governs to serve his own interests. A weekend mobilisation in May leaves Hitler feeling humiliated, a British envoy spends six hours with the Sudeten Germans and minutes with Czechoslovak leaders, and a scuffle in Moravská Ostrava is provoked on Berlin's orders. Each chapter pairs its main thread with side stories, from a scandal in the Sudeten German leadership to a funeral.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

572 pages in the original

Genres

Politics, Historical (assigned by AI)

First published

2019 by Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej

Author's age

47 when first published

ISBN

9788366232419 (original)