This article focuses on military handbooks from the first half of the 17th century placed in the collections of the Military History Institute Prague. In the introduction, it summarises the history and structure of the collection of early printed books in the library under study. After that, it characterises the set of the handbooks i.a. in terms of their topic, the language and the publisher’s provenance, as well as format. Its main aim is to analyse the frontispieces and engraved title pages of these publications with regard to the iconographic motifs that are usually depicted on them. The final part of the work outlines the possibilities of using the frontispieces and engraved title pages of the studied publications as iconographic sources in historiography and it places the title illustrations of the military handbooks in a wider context., Klára Andresová., Obsahuje anglický abstrakt a shrnutí., and Obsahuje bibliografii
This article focuses on military handbooks from the first half of the 17th century placed in the collections of the Military History Institute Prague. In the introduction, it summarises the history and structure of the collection of early printed books in the library under study. After that, it characterises the set of the handbooks i.a. in terms of their topic, the language and the publisher’s provenance, as well as format. Its main aim is to analyse the frontispieces and engraved title pages of these publications with regard to the iconographic motifs that are usually depicted on them. The final part of the work outlines the possibilities of using the frontispieces and engraved title pages of the studied publications as iconographic sources in historiography and it places the title illustrations of the military handbooks in a wider context.
Autor představuje biografii generála a vojenského diplomata Čeňka Kudláčka (1896-1967), který prošel za první světové války československými legiemi v Rusku a Francii, za druhé světové války domácím a zahraničním odbojem (v jeho rámci byl vyslán získávat podporu krajanů v Kanadě a Brazílii) a po komunistickém převratu v roce 1948 se zpravodajsky angažoval v západním exilu. Recenzent se zastavuje zvláště u jeho roční diplomatické mise v polovině třicátých let v Bolívii, kterou Československo vojensky podporovalo ve válce s Paraguayí, a oceňuje, že čtenářská atraktivita se v knize spojuje s odbornou kvalitou., The book under review is a biography of Čeněk Kudláček (1896-1967), a general and military attaché, who fought in the First World War as a member of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia and France, was in the resistance at home and abroad during the Second World War (sent to gain the support of Czechs and Slovaks living in Canada and Brazil), and was involved in intelligence work as an exile following the Communist takeover in February 1948. The reviewer focuses on Kudláček´s year on a diplomatic mission to Bolivia in the mid-1930s, a country that Czechoslovakia supported militarily in the war against Paraguay. On the whole, he appreciates that the book is both highly readable and truly scholarly., [autor recenze] Pavel Kreisinger., and Obsahuje bibliografii a bibliografické odkazy