Czechoslovakia since World War Ii

by Tad Szulc

Szulc, Tad

Genres: History

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1971

About the author

Tadeusz Witold Szulc was an author and foreign correspondent for The New York Times from 1953 to 1972

Szulc is credited with breaking the story of the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Szulc was born in Warsaw, Poland, the son of Seweryn and Janina Baruch Szulc.

He attended Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.

In 1940 he emigrated from Poland to join his family in Brazil; it had left Poland in the mid-1930s.

In Brazil, he studied at the University of Brazil, but in 1945, he abandoned his studies to work as a reporter for the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1947 he moved from Brazil to New York City, and in 1954, he became a US citizen.

His emigration had been sponsored by United States Ambassador John Cooper Wiley, who was married to his aunt.

In 2001, Szulc died of cancer at his home, in Washington, D.C.

Reviews

[Greg D'Avis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad but inconsistent. Shines once the Soviet invasion comes about, up-and-down up to that point. Given the lack of good histories on that subject, this might be the best there is.