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The personality of Edvard Beneš is firmly rooted in Czech national memory. However, his historic role is viewed even in the Czech milieu in different ways, the main reasons thereof being the fact that he is closely linked with the totally different opinions concerning the solution of two fatal crises in modern Czech history: the Munich Agreement in the fall of 1938 and the Communist coup of February 1948. The present study focuses on the image of Edvard Beneš available in some less known or even unknown memoirs, mostly unpublished, namely those of Josef David, Aša Jínová, or Jan Jína, Vlastimil Klíma, František Ježek, Vratislav Trčka, Jan Kapras Junior, and Karel Lőbl. Each of them shows Beneš from a different historical, personal and generation-dependent point of view and emphasizes different political and personal features.