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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Czech Social Democratic Party politicians, Czech communists, Klement Gottwald, Egon Erwin Kisch, Ludvik Svoboda, Stanislav Gross, Zden k Nejedly, Julius Podlipny, Vladimir pidla, Ji i Paroubek, Milou Jake, Josef Smrkovsky, tefan Fule, Zden k Sv rak, Ota ik, Irena Ko i, Milo Zeman, Antonin Zapotocky, Pavel Rychetsky, David Rath, Jan Kavan, Ji i Hajek, Milada Emmerova, Zden k Fierlinger, Vlastimil Tusar, Lubomir trougal, Pavel Dostal, Pavel Ploc, Jan Kohout, Michal Ha ek, Jaroslav Handli, Miloslav Vl ek, Antonin Janou ek, Old ich ernik, Josef ihak, Franti ek Halas, Ji i Horak, Lubo Dobrovsky, Lubomir Zaoralek, Franti ek Bublan, Bohuslav Sobotka, Miroslav louf, Ladislav Kop iva, Jan verma, Rudolf Tayerle, Petra Buzkova, Karel Urbanek. Excerpt: Egon Erwin Kisch (April 29, 1885, Prague - March 31, 1948, Prague) was a Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German. He was noted for his development of literary reportage and his opposition to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. Kisch was born into a wealthy Sephardic German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began his journalistic career as a reporter for the Bohemia, a Prague German language newspaper, in 1906. His early work is characterised by an interest in crime and the lives of the poor of Prague, taking Jan Neruda, Emile Zola and Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz as his models. His most notable story of this period was his uncovering of the spy scandal involving Alfred Redl. At the outbreak of World War I, Kisch was called up for military service in the Austrian army. He fought on the front-line in Serbia and the Carpathians and his war-time experiences were later recorded in Schreib das auf, Kisch! (1929). He was briefly imprisoned in 1916 for publishing reports from the front that criticised the Aus...
