How Long to Read The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 56 minutes to read The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948 by Emeritus Professor of European History Zbyn%ek Zeman

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Edvard Benes was a key figure in the history of Czechoslovakia in the first three decades of her existence. He helped Thomas Masaryk to found the state in World War I; and in the 1920s he worked on foreign policy and was briefly prime minister before being elected president in 1935. Hispresidency saw the loss of the Sudetenland at Munich in 1938, followed by the German occupation in 1939, which forced Benes to form a London-based government-in-exile for the duration of the war. He lived to see a brief period of restored independence (1945-48), and died in 1948, in the year whenCzechoslovakia became another satellite state in Stalin's Soviet Union. Benes was an awkwardly successful politician, with a controversial reputation at home and abroad. His loyalty to the first Czech President, Masaryk, was absolute. In return, Masaryk supported Benes' political ambitions, and between them, the two men shaped the domestic and foreign policies of thenew state and the ways in which it was run. Benes regarded himself as having been supremely successful in World War I and during the peace conference. After such a surfeit of personal and political success, he never again recovered his composure. He was a fair-weather politician, at his best whenthings were going well for him. Munich was a blow which deeply upset him, though he staged a remarkable come-back for himself and Czechoslovakia in World War II. After the conclusion of the treaty with Moscow in 1943, Benes briefly recovered his self-confident optimism, only to lose it gradually inthe subsequent years. President of a country he'd helped to create, Benes was finally broken by the stresses imposed on him by international circumstances in a central Europe dominated first by Hitler and then by Stalin. He died a disappointed, broken man in 1948.

How long is The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948?

The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948 by Emeritus Professor of European History Zbyn%ek Zeman is 293 pages long, and a total of 74,129 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 45 minutes to read The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948 aloud.

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The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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