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A quite readable history of the Czech lands.
This fascinating history was written by an American professor who fled the country in 1949, returning after the Velvet Revolution to write this book.
An Oxford historian's gripping 'I was there' account of the events that swept away communism's old guard.
A biography of Czechoslovakia's former leader (he inspired the Prague Spring) with a hasty post-1989 update.
A biography of the charismatic playwright-president.
A series of absorbing political essays by the dissident-turned-president.
A luminous account of a trek through Europe, including Czechoslovakia, in the early 1930s.
A quiet, absorbing novella about a porcelain collector in the old Jewish quarter of Prague.
A biting satire of communist Prague by one of the city's leading novelists.
Kafka is perhaps Prague's most famous literary talent, and this is one of his greatest works.
