The end of World War II in Europe in May 1945 marked a complex period of transformation for the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the 'independent' Slovak state, the borderlands stolen by Germany and Hungary, and without Subcarpathian Rus, which was seized by the USSR, into a unified republic in its pre-war form. This was also the main task of the new government, composed mostly of emigrants and appointed during the fighting in Košice. It was a task that no other European cabinet had to face. How did the Czechoslovak government cope with it upon its return to Prague, how did it address the difficult economic, political, moral, and other challenges in the tumultuous post-war period, including the internal power struggle within the government itself, and what conflicting pressures were at play in a country to which people displaced by the war were returning...? The reader will find not only answers to these questions in the new book by a renowned author of non-fiction.
