PRAGUE, CAPITAL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / A SURREALIST HISTORY

Ranging across twentieth-century Prague's astonishingly vibrant and always surprising human landscape, this richly illustrated cultu ral history describes how the city has experienced (and suffered) more ways of being modern than perhaps any other metropolis. Locat ed at the crossroads of struggles between democratic, communist, and fascist visions of the modern world, twentieth-century Prague w itnessed revolutions and invasions, national liberation and ethnic cleansing, the Holocaust, show trials, and snuffed-out dreams of socialism...[Leer más]