Americký diplomat Paul Hacker podle recenzenta významně přispěl k dosud nepočetným diplomatickým memoárům o Československu po pádu komunistického režimu (původní vydání: Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat’s Eyewitness Account. University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press 2010). Hacker od podzimu 1990 do konce roku 1992 vedl nově zřízený americký generální konzulát v Bratislavě, který se poté se vznikem Slovenské republiky stal velvyslanectvím. Jeho vzpomínky pojednávají zejména o Slovensku v posledních letech československé federace, o jeho cestě k samostatnosti a prvních krocích jako suverénního státu. Události přitom nahlíží ze slovenské perspektivy, zatímco pohled český či československý téměř absentuje. Recenzent komentuje například jeho líčení dělení společného státu, odstíněný portrét slovenského premiéra Vladimíra Mečiara nebo aféru s objevenými odposlechy na bratislavském generálním konzulátu., The book under review is a Slovak translation of Paul Hacker´s Slovakia on the road to independence: An American diplomat´s eyewitness account (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010). With this book, Hacker has made an important contribution to the small number of memoirs by diplomats which discuss Czechoslovakia after the collapse of the Communist regime. Hacker, from autumn 1990 to late 1992, was in charge of the newly established US consulate in Bratislava, and, after the creation of the Slovak Republic, became the US ambassador to that country. His memoirs discuss Slovakia particularly in the last years of the Czechoslovak federation, its road to independence, and its first steps as a sovereign state. He looks at events from the Slovak perspective, almost completely ignoring the Czech and Czechoslovak. The reviewer notes, for example, Hacker´s depiction of the division of the federation, his sketch of the Slovak premier, Vladimír Mečiar (b. 1942), and the affair over the discovery of the wiretapping of the US consulate general in Bratislava., [autor recenze] Tomáš Zahradníček., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy
This article presents Christian Kyrill Schneider OFM, a significant yet not widely known Franciscan missionary who lived in the second half of the 18th century and worked in Egypt and surrounding Middle East Area. His autography that is only available as a manuscript and has never been presented before is fully described here. An excerpt of one chapter offers an insight into a catching egodocument from the beginning of the 19th century. This study is set in the context of Franciscan missions with an important focus on the activity of brothers from the Czech lands in the Middle East. The introductory chapter summarizes basic bibliography of history of Franciscan missionaries and their writings., Kateřina Holanová., and Obsahuje bibliografické odkazy
This study provides information on Slovak memoir literature, journals and reminiscences written both at home and in exile and dealing with developments in Slovakia in the period from the Munich agreement to the creation of the Slovak state. and Článek zahrnuje poznámkový aparát pod čarou