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More than 70 years after the end of World War Two, new information is still coming out about the brave efforts that allied parachutists played in the Nazi occupied Czech lands. In the newly published book Foursquare: The Last Parachutist, George Bearfield explores the development and deployment of these special forces, with central focus dedicated to his grandfather, who was himself sent on a mission to Czechoslovakia in the final stages of the war.
George Bearfield lives in Britain and does not speak Czech, but he is related to two Czechoslovak parachutists who played important roles in the covert war against the Nazis in World War II Czechoslovakia. One of them is his grandfather Jaroslav Bublík, who served as a paratrooper signals instructor before being himself dropped into Czech territory during the last days of the war. The other is Jaroslav Bublik s cousin Josef, who was one of the parachutists that died alongside Josef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš during the brave last stand in
Bruce Berglund’s fascinating Castle and Cathedral in Modern Prague, published in Czech in January, focuses on the early years of Czechoslovakia, when President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was forging the new state. This included making Prague Castle the symbolic heart of the new democracy and, Berglund writes, an ambitious plan for a new religion for the country that TGM founded in 1918. I spoke to the historian from his home in Minnesota.
One thing I found really fascinating in your book is when you say that Masaryk had this idea of, with the new country, also creating a new religion? What exactly was he hoping to achieve with that? Or what was it even?
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