My War Memoirs

Dr. Edvard Beneš, Paul Selver

• Publisher: Patavium Publishing
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781805233114
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Erster Weltkrieg

The Czechoslovak minister of foreign affairs tells a detailed story of the revolutionary movement of the Czechs that led to the building of the new state, in the government of which he and President Masaryk have become the leaders."THIS book contains a record of my wartime experiences. Life moves so rapidly that the approach of new political events is apt to make us forget the old ones too easily. Much of what I saw and heard during the war deserves to be remembered, and that is why I have decided to wait no longer, but to tell the story of our revolutionary movement now. This book will be supplemented by later works on the Peace Conference and on our post-war foreign policy, for my work during the war and subsequently as Czechoslovak Foreign Minister forms an inseparable whole."-Introduction

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• AUTHOR’S PREFACE
• TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
• THE PRONUNCIATION OF CZECH NAMES
• I — MY PREPARATIONS FOR WAR AND REVOLUTION
• II — THE BEGINNINGS OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
• III — ORIGIN AND ORGANIZATION OF THE “MAFFIA”
• IV — MY SECOND JOURNEY TO SWITZERLAND. THE LAST MEETING OF THE “MAFFIA.” MY ESCAPE ABROAD
• V — PARIS AND LONDON AS CENTRES OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
• VI — THE PROPAGANDIST ACTIVITY OF OUR REVOLUTION MOVEMENT
• VII — OUR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AMONG THE TROOPS AND PRISONERS OF WAR
• VIII — THE PEACE OFFENSIVE OF THE CENTRAL POWERS. THE ALLIED NOTE TO PRESIDENT WILSON, AND THE CZECHOSLOVAK QUESTION
• IX — ITALY AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN THE GREAT WAR. THE ENTRY OF THE UNITED STATES INTO THE WAR. RUSSIA AND OUR LIBERATION MOVEMENT. THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
• X — THE FORMATION OF A CZECHOSLOVAK NATIONAL ARMY IN FRANCE. NEGOTIATIONS FOR A CZECHOSLOVAK ARMY IN ITALY
• XI — ATTEMPTS AT CONCLUDING AN UNDECISIVE PEACE. ALLIED NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SEPARATE PEACE WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
• XII — ATTEMPTS AT CONCLUDING AN UNDECISIVE PEACE. ALLIED NEGOTIATIONS FOR A SEPARATE PEACE WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY—(Continued)
• XIII — NEW GUARANTEES OF OUR VICTORY. ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR MILITARY UNITS IN FRANCE AND ITALY
• XIV — TRIUMPH OF THE POLICY OF SELF-DETERMINATION
• XV — NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE ALLIES FOR THE TRANSPORT OF OUR ARMY FROM RUSSIA TO FRANCE AND FOR OUR POLITICAL RECOGNITION
• XVI — OUR RECOGNITION BY GREAT BRITAIN. THE BRITISH DECLARATION OF AUGUST 9, 1918. RECOGNITION BY JAPAN
• XVII — PROCLAMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAK INDEPENDENCE. THE FIRST CZECHOSLOVAK GOVERNMENT
• XVIII — OUR MOVEMENT ABROAD MERGES WITH THE EFFORTS AT HOME. THE COLLAPSE OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND THE COUP D’ÉTAT AT PRAGUE
• XIX — CZECHOSLOVAKIA SIGNS THE ARMISTICE CONDITIONS. THE FIRST DIPLOMATIC STRUGGLES CONCERNING OUR FRONTIERS. THE END OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT ABROAD
• XX — FINAL REFLECTIONS