Bohuslav Pekárek´s Memoirs and Other Czechoslovak Legion Documentation Added to the Hoover Library & Archives
(World News Science)

Another significant increment of materials generated a century ago by the Czechoslovak Legions on the Western Front and in Siberia has been added to the Hoover holdings. Among the trove`s notable items, acquired from sources in Germany and Turkey, are the memoirs of a Czech Legionnaire, Bohuslav Pekárek, as well as a number of ephemeral publications and imprints. The Czechoslovak Legion in the West was composed mostly of émigré Czechs and some Slovaks, all of whom had volunteered to fight on the side of the Entente powers during World War I. The legionnaires` goal was to win the Allies` support for Bohemia and Moravia`s independence from...