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In the shadow and background: general Antonín Hasal (1893-1960)
Hubený, David ; Maršálek, Zdenko (referee) ; Kuklík jun., Jan (advisor)
1960), whose activities left a significant vestige both in military and political course of Czechoslovakian public life. The first chapter focuses on his youth, academic education and precocity. He finishes his secondary school education in Rakovnik, from which he moves to Russia shortly before the beginning of the First World War. In the course of the First World war he enters Česká Družina (Czech Retinue) as a private. The chapter focuses on the growth and development of Czechoslovak forces in Russia and studies those military operations in which Hasal participated. One of the fields of interest is also the Civil War in Russia, into which Hasal intervenes already as a commander of 2nd riflemen regiment of Jiřího z Poděbrad. The chapter terminates with the return of Czechoslovakian Legions to Czechoslovakia. The second chapter concentrates on Hasal's career in the first Czechoslovak Republic. The chapter begins with the characterisation of the restless events of December 1920, when the uproar between moderate social democrats together with the state powers and the radical social democrats, later to become communists, begins. Following are the passages dealing with Hasal's career development, an account on his studies on several military universities and the foundation of his family. In the course of 1930s...
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Czechoslovak military resistance-in-exile in the year 1944
Maršálek, Zdenko
In the introduction, the article deals with the problems of the strategic situation of the Allies in the year 1944. In the summer of 1944, it seemed that the war could end soon, but despite the heavy losses, Germans managed to recover. The situation of the Czechoslovak exile and its military formations developed on this broader context. The first half of 1944 was thus a period of preparation for the moment of deemed critical decision. At the end of the summer, the Czechoslovak military formations entered the combat operations both on Eastern and Western fronts, the moment of final victory was however still far away.
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