After a decade's interruption--the war years were too busy for surveying and the postwar years brought an "avalanche of new evidence"--these extremely valuable contributions to the study of ...

In the early hours of September 30, 1938, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and Italy signed an agreement in Munich, Germany, allowing Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler to annex German-speaking ...

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IT was in the ‘works hotel’ of a mighty iron and steelworks in a district where Czechs, Germans, and Poles were living together in close community. My host, a prominent engineer of the steelworks, ...

Josef Mencik, "the Last Knight" and early resister to Nazi aggression. Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also ...

A BBC correspondent describes in detail his experiences of Czechoslovakia as German troops move into the border areas following the Munich Agreement. On a journey from Prague to the occupied zones he ...

History does not really repeat itself, not exactly. But with both a bachelor’s and a master’s in history, I can’t help but make comparisons between current and past events. What Trump is doing with ...

The British prime minister, reviled by history for selling out Czechoslovakia to Hitler at Munich in 1938, would be pleased to know that today’s Czech troops are serving under German command. It is ...