From Prague After Munich: Diplomatic Papers, 1938-1940 (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Kennan, George Frost

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691647372 ISBN 13: 9780691647371

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2016

Synopsis

In August 1938 George F. Kennan was assigned as Secretary of Legation in Prague. After the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he stayed on in that country when most other Western observers had left. These diplomatic papers, letters, and notes are on-the-spot observations by a skilled and sensitive historian and diplomat. They offer a unique record of one of the tragic events in modern European history. Depicted here are the attempts at Germanization of Czech life, the cynical exploitation of various native organizations, the German insistence on a program of anti-Semitism, the take-over of Czech business and industry, the problems of currency and inflation.

Originally published in 1968.

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George F. Kennan is the author of twenty books and has been awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He is a member and past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is currently professor emeritus at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0691647372
• ISBN 13: 9780691647371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300