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

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Kreisinger P.

Vojenská história

2024

vol. 28

issue 1

49 – 80

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.

NARVIK, A SWEDISH NORWEGIAN BORDER TOWN

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Aas S.

Mesto a dejiny

2019

vol. 8

issue 1

54 – 79

This article gives an insight into the industrialization and colonization processes of northern Scandinavia. Urbanization due to industrialization is a vital part of the perspective, and brings us into an industrial mega system in Swedish Lapland in the late nineteenth century based on iron ore export. It was to be connected to the industrial centre of Europe, especially the Ruhrgebiet of Germany, and paved the way for a new kind of urban development in peripheral Europe – the industrial network town. The history and foundation of the Norwegian harbour town Narvik is vital for gaining insight into this mega system. By studying Narvik we can envisage particularities of, and similarities and differences between Norway and Sweden when it comes to their urban economic foundations, urban development/planning regimes, and the relations between the municipalities, the modern nation states and the dominating companies. Even the development of a uniquely Scandinavian identity connected with the labour movement and the development of a post-war social democrat order visibly results from the new industries. Thus the common Swedish-Norwegian figure of the rallar – something like navvy or construction worker – has a significant place in this study, and the use of the figure in addition to later processes of memory creation, both within the Norwegian and Swedish labour movements, is addressed.

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

NARVIK, A SWEDISH NORWEGIAN BORDER TOWN