Army Without a Country: The Extraordinary Story of the Czechoslovak Legion

In August 1914, a group of Czech and Slovak men volunteered to fight for a country that did not yet exist. They called one another bratr — brother. They greeted each other with a single word: Nazdar. To the goal.Over the next six years, these men — assembled from diaspora communities in Paris and Chicago, from prisoner-of-war camps on the Siberian steppe, from the ranks of the French Foreign Legio...