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| Дата | 30.09.2003 04:43:52 |  |
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И. Луртукову: англоязычная и пр. л-ра о Чешском Легионе
THE story of the Czechoslovakian legion and its vital role in the creation of the state of Czechoslovakia is virtually unknown in the United States, although parts of the story have been told a number of times in books wirtten in English. For a complete understanding of Czechoslovakian affairs—or as complete as any lay person might wish to have—one should read the various works of Thomas G. Masaryk, first President of the Republic, and of Eduard BeneS, his successor. Also, the autobiography of Henry Wickham Steed, Through Thirty Years, Heinemann, 1925, is useful because Steed was a good friend to Masaryk in trying times. Masaryk's Die Welt-Revolution, Erich Reiss Verlag, Berlin, 1925, is also most useful. C. J. C. Street's Vresident Masaryk, Geoffrey Bles, London, 1930, is useful, and so is Pierre Crabites' Benes, George Routledge and Sons, London, 1935. For the story of the legion, Dr. Margaret Klante's Von der Wolga zum Amur, Im Ost Europaz Verlag, Berlin, 1931, is the most complete and scholarly study. Konstantin W. Sakharow's Die Tschechischen Legionen in Sibirien, Volk und Reich Verlag, Berlin, 1936, is a more popular treatment of the same theme. Dr. Klante's doctoral dissertation, Die Geschichte der Tschechischen Legion in Russlanii, is the basis for her work. In the United States in 1939 Major R. Ernest Dupuy wrote Perish by the Sword, published by the Military Service Publishing Co., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which is the story of the Czechs and the Americans in Siberia in 1918-20.
Henry Baerlein's The March of the Seventy Thousand is a very good account, published by Leonard Parsons, London, in 1926. The story of the allied intervention in Siberia is told briefly in Clarence A. Manning's The Siberian Fiasco, Library Publishers, New York, 1952.
For a personal view of the events by one who was there, I leaned heavily on Gustav Becvar's The Lost Legion, Stanley Paul and Co., London, 1939. Becvar fought in the Austro-Hungarian army, deserted, was imprisoned in Russia, joined the 2d Division of the Druzina, rose through the ranks to become an officer, and was one of the last Czechs to see Admiral Kolchak. He was a member of the famous 6th Regiment, which acted as rear guard for the Czechs so many times.
A basic work on the Czech army is L'Armee Tchecoslovaque by Charles-Henry, chief adjutant of the undersecretariat of the French ministry of war, and F. de Means, published in Paris (undated) by Charles Lavauzelle and Co. General J. Rouquerol's L'Aventure de L'Amiral Koltchak, Payot, Paris, 1929, was also most useful. Emil Lengyel's Siberia, Random House, 1943, was helpful in giving brief background material about Siberia.
Из книги THE ARMY WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
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