Translated in my English version: "Vaclav Havel: The Power of the Powerless in the 20th Century", this is a graphic novel/easy-to-read story of both the history of Czechoslovakia and Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became the country's top dissident and eventual first president of the Czech Republic when it rejected communism at the end of the Cold War.
The illustrations are very good and I learned a lot. For example, I did not realize that the communists banned higher studies (college) for children from "bougeoisie' parents, and I did not know much about the specifics of Havel's brave deeds (dissident, went to jail, wrote controversial works. etc.).
As an American, it is interesting to read all this from a Czech writer's perspective. There is definitely an anti-communism bias which is understandable...among other things he dedicates the book to "all the mean and cowardly individuals who pandered to the communist regime. And that means you too, Mrs. Bat'kova our Russian teacher - you helped make our youth worse." He repeadedly refers to the communist government in negative ways.
Good book and it was a thoughtful gift from my mom who visited Prague recently!