Last week the war was returning to where it had come from. A mighty ally of Czechoslovakia had advanced within a hundred miles of her eastern frontier. Five years, to the week, after German boots had ...

SLAVICIN, Czech Republic — American families and friends joined Czechs and Slovakians on Monday to commemorate 80 years since a tragic air battle that took the lives of 41 Army airmen during World War ...

Old Aristide Briand called Eduard Benes the only “permanent Minister” in Europe. Others dubbed him “Europe’s smartest little statesman.” That was how he looked between the wars. He did not change but ...

Chivalry wasn't dead in 1938 when Nazi tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia. It lived on in at least one man: Josef Menčík, also known as the "Knight of Strakonice." Once described as "the definition of ...

A copy of my recent Gazette column on Gen. John Michael Loh’s assessment on the war in Ukraine found its way to the Czech Republic. Loh, a retired four-star general who served as vice chief of staff ...