THE CZECH READER

Jan Bazant, Nina Bazantova, Frances Starn - editors

Duke University Press, Draham and London, 2010

 

Very interesting, serious and profound reading about Czech history, culture and politics

You can find in this book such articles like the registers of the fist Chronicle on Bohemia by Cosmas, a letter of Joan of Arc to the Hussite wariors, May by Karel Hynek Mácha, speech by Reinhard Heydrich on the elimination of the Czech nation, lyrics of Karel Kryl song, article by Václav Havel, Joke by Milan Kundera and many other Czech treasures, that will make you a little bit more familiar with the Czech culture, history and politics. Enjoy!

 

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