VÁLEČNÉ OSUDY FRANTIŠKA TUNÁKA (1919 – 1973). PŘÍSPĚVEK K NASAZENÍ ČECHOSLOVÁKŮ V ŘADÁCH FRANCOUZSKÝCH A POLSKÝCH EXPEDIČNÍCH SIL U NORSKÉHO NARVIKU V ROCE 1940

• Authors: Kreisinger Pavel

Title variants

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Wartime fate of František Tunák (1919–1973): The contribution to the deployment of Czechoslovaks in the ranks of the French and Polish expeditionary forces at Narvik, Norway, in 1940

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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This study focuses on the wartime fate of the Slovak František Tunák (1919–1973), who spent his spare time in Great Britain, as a member of the Czechoslovak Army, writing down his war experiences from Narvik, where he fought in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion. He wrote his 24-page memoirs with a minimum delay in 1941, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the battles. The aim of the material presented here is not only to describe Tunák’s wartime fate in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion (Narvik) and the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade (Dunkirk), but especially to make available, in the form of a critical edition, a unique source of his Narvik memoirs, describing even some taboo topics and at the same time have remarkable literary qualities.

Keywords

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NORWAY; NARVIK; FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION; SIEGE OF DUNKIRK; FRANTIŠEK TUNÁK

• Publisher: Vojenský historický ústav Bratislava
• Journal: Vojenská história
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49 – 80

Contributors

author

Kreisinger Pavel

• Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého, Na Hradě 5, 771 80 Olomouc, Czech Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3144-1848