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This page is intended to give an overview of useful historical books on Czech and Slovak history.
General Histories
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Sayer, Derek, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998).
[CZ/SL] Dowling, Maria, Czechoslovakia (London: Arnold, 2002). [a recent brief introductory history]
[CZ/SL] Seton-Watson, R. W., A History of the Czechs and Slovaks (London, 1943). [Outdated in some ways, but not yet satisfactorily replaced as a one-volume study]
Polišenský, J. V., Britain and Czechoslovakia: A Study in Contacts (Prague: Orbis, 1966).
Demetz, Peter, Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City (London: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1997).
Ripellino, Angelo Maria, Magic Prague [1973], David Newton Marinelli, trans [from Italian] (Macmillan, London, 1994).
For more Czech history see Hugh Agnew, The Czechs and the Lands of the Bohemian Crown
1989-present
1918-1989
[CZ/SL] History of the Czechoslovak Republic, ed. Victor S. Mamatey and Radomír Luža (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1973).
Zeman, Z. A. B., The Masaryks (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976; Tauris, London/New York, 1990).
[CZ/SL] Wallace, William V., Czechoslovakia (London: Ernest Benn, 1977).
[SL] Brock, Peter, The Slovak National Awakening (Toronto, 1976).
French, Alfred, Czech Writers and Politics, 1945-1969, East European Quarterly, Boulder, Colorado, distributed by Columbia University Press (New York, 1982).
1774-1918
Wittlich, Petr, Prague Fin de Siècle [in English] (Paris: Flammarion, 1992).
[CZ/SL] Gorys, Erhard, The Czech and Slovak Republics (London: Pallas Athene, 1991 etc). [solid guidebook]
[CZ/SL] Jacobs, Michael, Blue Guide: Czechoslovakia (London: A & C Black; New York: W. W. Norton, 1992).
Last updated: February 2018